arrange, arraynge

t. & i. [In Ger. arrangiren; Fr. arranger; (Fr. ranger = to put in order, to draw up in rank; rang = rank); Prov, arrengar, rengar; Port. arranjar.] [See RANGE, RANK.] A. Transitive : 1. E ential meaning: To put in rank. Spec., to put in order, to put persons or things in the places where it is requisite for the carrying out of a purpose that they should be located. candles were arranged in the windows for an illumination."-Macaulay: Hist. Eng ., chap. xv. a proud show Of baby houses curiously arranged." Words worth: Excursion, bk. ii. 2. To plan, to prepare beforehand, to settle particulars before commencing action. "A place and a time were named; and the details of a butchery were we frequently discu ed, if not definitely arranged."-Macaulay: Hist . Eng ., chap. ii. B. In trans. To a ume a form of order. "But soon, within that mirror, huge and high, Was seen a self-emitted light to gleam; And forms upon its breast the earl 'gan spy, Cloudy and indistinct, as feverish dream: Till, slow arranging , and defined, they seem To form a lordly and a lofty room." ar-rā'nged, pa . par . [ARRANGE.] ar-range-ment, s. [Eng. arrange; -ment. In Ger. & Fr. arrangement .] A. Ordinary Language: I. The act of putting in rank or in order; the state of being so put in order. "There is a proper arrangement of the parts in elastick bodies, which may be facilitated by use."Cheyne. II. The ranks thus formed, the disposition made, the order evoked, the settlement resulting. 1. Of material things : Things placed in rank or in certain defined positions. "Taking a slice of white light from the beam of an electric lamp, 1 cause that light to pa through an arrangement of prisms."-Tyndall: Frag. of Science, Srd ed., ix. 226. IMG:content-0758.png:[blocks in formation] ar-rā'igned, * a-rêgn-yd ( g silent), pa . ar-ra'n-ger, s. [Eng. arrang (e); -er. In Fr. par. & a. [ARRAIGN, v.] arrangeur.] One who arranges. "None of the list-makers, the a einblers of the mob, the directors and arrangers , have been conicted."- Burke : Reflections on the Executions in 1780. ar-ran-ging, pr. par. & s. [ARRANGE.] A As pr. par. See the verb. B. As subst. The act of settling details or placing in order.