v. 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. trans. To draw up in ranks or in line of battle.
1375. Barbour, Bruce, XII. 36. He saw hym swa araynge [? = arraying] his men on raw.
1489. Caxton, Faytes of Armes, I. i. 2. Who gauest manere & ordre to arenge batailles.
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., cccxxv. (R.). There he araynged his men in the stretes.
1596. Spenser, F. Q., I. vi. 38. To see two knights … arraung’d in battell new.
1830. Gen. 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.
1843. Carlyle, Past & Pr. (1858), 93. Arranged in supreme regimental order.
b. intr. (for refl.).
1523. Ld. Berners, Froiss., I. ccxv. 269. The residewe (who were worste harneysed), arenged alonge on the hylle syde.
2. trans. To put (the parts of a thing) into proper or requisite order; to adjust.
1802. Paley, Nat. Theol., ii. § 2. A mechanism previously arranged.
1837. Disraeli, Venetia, I. xvi. Squire Mountmeadow then, arranging his countenance, announced that the bench was prepared.
1868. Geo. Eliot, F. Holt, 11. His soft white hair was carefully parted and arranged.
b. refl. To put oneself in order; prepare oneself.
1865. Carlyle, 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.
a. 1838. (title) A Selection of National Airs Arranged for the Harp or Pianoforte by Mrs. Gibson.
1849. Athenæum, 20 Oct., 1067/2. Even though the composers ‘arranged’ be Haydn, Mozart, Beethoven, &c. &c.
1879. C. 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. trans. To place (things) in some order, dispose.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, x. (1848), 81. The greengrocers and fruiterers were beginning to arrange their hampers.
1815. Wordsw., 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.
1853. Soyer, Pantroph., 390. Lettuces, olives, pomegranates, Damascus plums, tastefully arranged on silver dishes.
1869. Freeman, 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.
1805. Scott, Last Minstrel, 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.
1837. Macready, Remin., II. 82. I sent the authors out of the room to arrange the matter.
1867. Froude, Short Stud. (1872), I. 24. The relations between himself and his dependants will have to be arranged on other principles.
1878. Seeley, 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.
1796. Burke, Regic. Peace, Wks. VIII. 90. We cannot arrange with our enemy in the present conjuncture.
1831. B’ness 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.
1786. Burke, Art. W. Hastings, III. Wks. XI. 432. That the acts done should be arranged with the Rajah.
1837. Harris, Gt. Teacher, 340. Every step he took was calculated and arranged.
1849. Macaulay, 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. cl.) 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.
1849. Macaulay, Hist. Eng., II. 369. For Halifax had arranged that 21 temporal peers … should be ready.
1858. Hawthorne, Fr. & It. Jrnls. (1872), I. 26. To arrange about my passport.
1860. Tyndall, Glac., I. § 17. 121. I had arranged to meet Ramsay this morning.
1869. A. 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.
