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verb

Arrange v. t. (past & past part. arranged; pres. part. arranging)

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." "(They) were beginning to arrange their hampers." "A mechanism previously arranged."

To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking.

Synonyms: Adjust; adapt; range; dispose; classify.

noun

arranging n. The act of arranging a piece of music.

Synonyms: arrangement.

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Etymology of 'Arranging'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Arranging" Quotes from Famous Books

... immediately from the First Cause, received the inherent gift of immortality. That so precious an advantage might be lavished upon unworthy objects, the Creator had intrusted to the skill and power of the inferior gods the office of forming the human body, and of arranging the beautiful harmony of the animal, the vegetable, and the mineral kingdoms. To the conduct of these divine ministers he delegated the temporal government of this lower world; but their imperfect administration is not exempt from discord or error. The ...

— The History of The Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire - Volume 2 • Edward Gibbon

... later impress itself upon physical things. I said, 'In the East you know how to keep a family illustrious. The other day the curator of a museum pointed out to me a little dark-skinned man who was arranging their Chinese prints and said, ''That is the hereditary connoisseur of the Mikado, he is the fourteenth of his family to hold the post.'' 'He answered, 'When Rabindranath was a boy he had all round ...

— Gitanjali • Rabindranath Tagore

... purchase at the shop, she finds the child standing at her elbow and duplicating her order. When she is buying a picture, she is careful to see to it that there are two copies, knowing that a second copy must be provided for the child. When she is arranging her personal adornment, she is conscious of the child peeping through the door and absorbing her with ...

— The Vitalized School • Francis B. Pearson

... I don't know whom all this charming incredulity's intended to flatter, but if it's I, I say no, not really, at all! It's merely a little coup de theatre we've been arranging." ...

— Five O'Clock Tea - Farce • W. D. Howells

... are a few imitations, notably the three by Surtees—Lord Ewine, the Death of Featherstonhaugh, and Barthram's Dirge, which Scott supposed were old; and one or two like the Flowers of the Forest, which he noted as largely modern, or which he had found, after arranging his material, to be wholly modern. Nearly forty old ballads were published in the Minstrelsy for the ...

— Sir Walter Scott as a Critic of Literature • Margaret Ball

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