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Ranked

Rank \Rank\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Ranked (r[a^][ng]kt); p. pr. & vb. n. Ranking.]

  1. To place abreast, or in a line.

  2. To range in a particular class, order, or division; to class; also, to dispose methodically; to place in suitable classes or order; to classify.

    Ranking all things under general and special heads.
    --I. Watts.

    Poets were ranked in the class of philosophers.
    --Broome.

    Heresy is ranked with idolatry and witchcraft.
    --Dr. H. More.

  3. To take rank of; to outrank. [U.S.]

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ranked

vb. (en-past of: rank)

WordNet
ranked

adj. arranged in a sequence of grades or ranks; "stratified areas of the distribution" [syn: graded, stratified]

Usage examples of "ranked".

The revolution of three centuries had produced so remarkable a change in the prejudices of the people, that, with the public approbation, Constantine showed his successors the example of bestowing the honors of the consulship on the Barbarians, who, by their merit and services, had deserved to be ranked among the first of the Romans.

Grisons are safe in their mountains, and the country of Tyrol is ranked among the numerous provinces of the house of Austria.

Christian emperor, Virgil may deserve to be ranked among the most successful missionaries of the gospel.

If they cultivated the literature, as well as the religion, of the Greeks, they acquired an additional claim to the friendship of Julian, who ranked the Muses in the number of his tutelar deities.

But the eunuch Narses is ranked among the few who have rescued that unhappy name from the contempt and hatred of mankind.

After a residence at Antioch of four years, the hand of Theodosius subscribed an edict, which ranked him with Simon the magician, proscribed his opinions and followers, condemned his writings to the flames, and banished his person first to Petra, in Arabia, and at length to Oasis, one of the islands of the Libyan desert.

Palestine are coeval with the first crusade, they may be ranked with the most ancient of the Latin world.

Sumeko ranked next after Reanne, as the Kin ordered their hierarchy, and while Alise stood much lower, she was a woman of great influence.

One was Hartha, a stone-eyed fellow who apparently ranked very close to Musenge.

Jiro could not shed the resentment of an upbringing where he continually ranked second: behind the heir, Halesko, and even behind plodding Bunto.

If, on the contrary, we mean goodness as a quality, no quality can be ranked among the primaries.

The contrary might be maintained: that change is more plausibly ranked as a species than is Motion, because change signifies merely the substitution of one thing for another, whereas Motion involves also the removal of a thing from the place to which it belongs, as is shown by locomotion.

Karl Lueger had lived in Germany he would have been ranked among the great minds of our people.

Aristotle had ranked motivations in a holarchy of deepening significance.

So the ballistae were aimed at the farther end of the bridge and at the legions ranked along the riverside north and south.