ARRANGE, ARRANGED, ARRANGEMENT, ARRANGING
ADJECTIVES
► BESTEAD ► BESTED arranged, settled, constituted → 1300 obs.
► BUTTONED arranged successfully; in order, sorted out → 1940 sl.
► COCUM Ñ COKUM arranged satisfactorily; sorted out → M19 sl.
► IN THE CAN arranged or agreed → 1929 colloq.
► JACKED UP arranged, sorted out, ‘fixed’ → 1960 NZ sl.
► ORDINATE arranged, ordered, disposed; destined, appointed → 1398 obs.
► ORDONNANT that arranges, or puts in order → 1820
► WRAPPED ► WRAPPED-UP carefully arranged; carefully prepared; entirely in order → 1935 services’ usage
NOUNS
► BANDOBAST ► BUNDOBUST an arrangement, a settlement; preparation → 1776
► ORDINATION an arranging, ordering, or disposing in ranks or order; the condition of being ordered or arranged → 1658
► PURVEYANCE an arranging or preparing; preparation → 1330 obs.
► RANGEMENT arrangement → 1674 obs.
► SORTATION an arranging or sorting; arrangement, classification → 1844
► SORTMENT a sorting, separating, or arranging; classification → 1598 obs.
► TAILLIE ► TAILYE arrangement, fixture → 1425 Sc. obs.
► TED an arranging, setting right, putting in order → 19C Sc.
NOUNS – PERSON
► TIN MITTENS a person who arranges something at a high price → 1935 US criminals’ sl.
VERBS
► ADDRESS to arrange, to set in order; to put things ‘straight’ or ‘to rights’ → 1375 obs.
► BETEE to arrange, to bring about, to manage → 1205 obs.
► BETHINK to arrange, to devise, to contrive, to plan → 1225 obs.
► BEVIL to arrange, to manage → 1911 Sc. (Bk.)
► BUNG ON to arrange, to organize → 20C sl.
► DEACON to arrange (fruit, vegetables, berries, or the like) so that the best appear at the top → 1913 Amer. dial. (Bk.)
► DESS to arrange neatly; to pile up in orderly fashion layer after layer → 1641 Eng. dial.
► ECONOMIZE to arrange, to constitute, to organize → 1691 obs.
► FACULATE to arrange, to put in order → 1889 Amer. dial.
► FAIT to arrange, to fit; to arrange → 1635 obs.
► JACK UP to arrange, to organize, to contrive; to prepare anything → 1939 NZ sl.
► LAY to arrange, to contrive → 1627 obs.
► LAY IT ON THE LINE to arrange, to organize, to plan → 1930 Brit. sl.
► LAY OUT to arrange, to intend, to plan → 1828 Amer. dial.
► MODEL to arrange, to organize → 1721 Eng. dial. obs.
► ORDAIN to arrange in rows or ranks, or other regular order; esp. to draw up in order of battle; to set in array → 1290 obs.
► ORGANIZE to arrange at short notice, to ‘fix up’ → 1930 sl., orig. military usage
► PURVEY to arrange in advance; to prepare; to plan → 1300 obs.
► RAIL to arrange, to set in order or array; to regulate → 1310 obs.
► REDD to arrange, to set in order; to prepare; to tidy, to clean up → 1787 Sc. & Eng. dial.
► SACK to arrange, to sort out → 1940 US criminals’ sl.
► SCHEME to arrange, to contrive, to manage → 1879 Eng. dial.
► SKIFT to arrange, to devise, to manage, or order something → 1300 obs.
► SUIT to arrange in a set, sequence, or series; to set in due order, to sort out → 1552 obs.
► TAIL to arrange, to settle, to fix a matter; to decide or determine in a specified way → 1315 obs.
► TAILYE ► TAILZIE to arrange, to determine, to settle, to appoint → 1375 Sc. obs.
► TEE UP to make an arrangement → 1999 Aust. sl. (Bk.)
► THINK UP to arrange, to plan, to originate → 1905 Eng. dial. (Bk.)
► TIFF to arrange, to put in order; to prepare, to make, to construct → 1300 obs.
► TO-SET to arrange, to distribute, to divide → 1387 obs.
► VAND to arrange, to contrive, shape, put together properly; to fit or adapt one thing to another → 1914 Sc.