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arrange, v.|əˈreɪndʒ|
Forms: 4–6 araynge, 5–6 ar(r)enge, 8– arrange.
[a. OF. arangie-r, arengier, f. à to + rangier, rengier, f. rang, reng, rank. A rare word until modern times; not in Bible 1611, Shakespeare, Milton's poetry, or Pope.]
1. a. trans. To draw up in ranks or in line of battle.
1375Barbour Bruce xii. 36 He saw hym swa araynge [? = arraying] his men on raw. 1489Caxton Faytes of Armes i. i. 2 Who gauest manere & ordre to arenge batailles. 1523Ld. Berners Froiss. cccxxv. (R.) There he araynged his men in the stretes. 1596Spenser F.Q. i. vi. 38 To see two knights..arraung'd in battell new. 1830Gen. P. Thompson Exerc. (1842) I. 226 The marvel is, that the well-informed part of the middle classes..does not arrange itself on the side of the reformers. 1843Carlyle Past & Pr. (1858) 93 Arranged in supreme regimental order.
b. intr. (for refl.).
1523Ld. Berners Froiss. I. ccxv. 269 The residewe (who were worste harneysed), arenged alonge on the hylle syde.
2. a. trans. To put (the parts of a thing) into proper or requisite order; to adjust.
1802Paley Nat. Theol. ii. §2 A mechanism previously arranged. 1837Disraeli Venetia i. xvi, Squire Mountmeadow then, arranging his countenance, announced that the bench was prepared. 1868Geo. Eliot F. Holt 11 His soft white hair was carefully parted and arranged.
b. refl. To put oneself in order; prepare oneself.
1865Carlyle Fredk. Gt. VII. xviii. vii. 212 Friedrich..hastens to arrange himself for the new contingencies.
3. Mus. To adapt (a composition) for instruments or voices for which it was not originally written. Also intr.
1808Monthly Pantheon I. 85/1 An immense expense..the reward of the composer, who selected and arranged the music. 1831F. Reynolds Playwright's Adv. iv. 64 A musician, who, by teaching, arranging, and composing, acquired an income of above one thousand pounds ‘per annum’. a1838(title) A Selection of National Airs Arranged for the Harp or Pianoforte by Mrs. Gibson. 1849Athenæum 20 Oct. 1067 Even though the composers ‘arranged’ be Haydn, Mozart, etc. 1879C. Parry in Grove Dict. Mus. I. 95/1 Brahms has arranged..his piano string quintett as a ‘Sonata’ for four hands on two pianos.
4. a. trans. To place (things) in some order, dispose.
1791Boswell Johnson x. (1848) 81 The greengrocers and fruiterers were beginning to arrange their hampers. 1815Wordsw. Poet. Wks. I. Pref. 16 Poems, apparently miscellaneous, may with propriety be arranged..with reference to the powers of mind predominant in the production of them. 1853A. Soyer Pantroph. 390 Lettuces, olives, pomegranates, Damascus plums, tastefully arranged on silver dishes. 1869Freeman Norm. Conq. (1876) III. xii. 215 The parts in the two dramas were differently arranged.
b. intr. (= refl.) To get into order, fall into place.
1805Scott Last Minstr. vi. xviii, Forms..Cloudy and indistinct..Till, slow arranging, and defined, they seem To form a lordly and a lofty room.
5. trans. To settle (relations between parties, conflicting claims, matters in dispute, differences); to adjust.
1837Macready Remin. II. 82, I sent the authors out of the room to arrange the matter. 1867Froude Short Stud. (1872) I. 24 The relations between himself and his dependants will have to be arranged on other principles. 1878Seeley Stein III. 498 The quarrel, partly by the interference of the Crown Prince, was arranged.
6. intr. (= To arrange matters): To come to an agreement or understanding as to mutual relations, claims, matters in dispute.
1796Burke Regic. Peace Wks. VIII. 90 We cannot arrange with our enemy in the present conjuncture. 1831Baroness Bunsen in Hare Life I. ix. 359 He then went on to Copenhagen to arrange with his father.
7. trans. To settle the order, manner, and circumstantial relations of (a thing to be done); to plan beforehand.
1786Burke Art. W. Hastings iii. Wks. XI. 432 That the acts done should be arranged with the Rajah. 1837Harris Gt. Teacher 340 Every step he took was calculated and arranged. 1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. ii. I. 267 The details of a butchery were frequently discussed, if not definitely arranged.
8. intr. (simply, or with inf. or subord. clause). To come to, or make, a settlement with other persons as to a matter to be done, so that all concerned in it shall do their part.
1849Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 369 For Halifax had arranged that 21 temporal peers..should be ready. 1858Hawthorne Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872) I. 26 To arrange about my passport. 1860Tyndall Glac. i. §17. 121, I had arranged to meet Ramsay this morning. 1869A. Morris Open Secr. ii. 186 God knew that we should deserve and require suffering, and arranged accordingly. Mod. They have arranged for a concert on Monday week. |