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  2  definitions  found 
 
  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Arrange  \Ar*range"\,  v.  t.  [imp.  &  p.  p.  {Arranged};  p.  pr  & 
  vb  n.  {Arranging}.]  [OE.  arayngen  OF  arengier  F. 
  arranger,  fr  a  (L.  ad)  +  OF  rengier  rangier,  F.  ranger. 
  See  {Range},  v.  t.] 
  1.  To  put  in  proper  order  to  dispose  (persons,  or  parts)  in 
  the  manner  intended,  or  best  suited  for  the  purpose;  as 
  troops  arranged  for  battle. 
 
  So  [they]  came  to  the  market  place  and  there  he 
  arranged  his  men  in  the  streets.  --Berners. 
 
  [They]  were  beginning  to  arrange  their  hampers. 
  --Boswell. 
 
  A  mechanism  previously  arranged.  --Paley. 
 
  2.  To  adjust  or  settle;  to  prepare;  to  determine;  as  to 
  arrange  the  preliminaries  of  an  undertaking. 
 
  Syn:  Adjust  adapt;  range;  dispose;  classify. 
 
  From  WordNet  r  1.6  [wn]: 
 
  arranged 
  adj  1:  disposed  or  placed  in  a  particular  kind  of  order  "the 
  carefully  arranged  chessmen";  "haphazardly  arranged 
  interlobular  septa";  "comfortable  chairs  arranged 
  around  the  fireplace"  [syn:  {ordered}]  [ant:  {disarranged}] 
  2:  planned  in  advance;  "an  arranged  marriage" 
  3:  deliberately  arranged  for  effect;  "one  of  those  artfully 
  staged  photographs"  [syn:  {staged}] 




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