Arrangest vs Arrantest - What's the difference?
arrangest | arrantest |
(archaic) (arrange)
To set up, to organize, especially in a positive manner.
* {{quote-book, year=1963, author=(Margery Allingham)
, title=(The China Governess)
, chapter=1 To put in order, to organize.
To plan; to prepare in advance.
*
, title=(The Celebrity), chapter=8
, passage=It had been arranged as part of the day's programme that Mr. Cooke was to drive those who wished to go over the Rise in his new brake.}}
(label) To prepare and adapt an already-written composition for presentation in other than its original form.
(arrant)
Utter; complete.
* circa 1600 , (William Shakespeare), (Hamlet) , scene 1:
* “
As a verb arrangest
is archaic second-person singular of arrange.As an adjective arrantest is
superlative of arrant.arrangest
English
Verb
(head)arrange
English
Verb
(arrang)citation, passage=The huge square box, parquet-floored and high-ceilinged, had been arranged to display a suite of bedroom furniture designed and made in the halcyon days of the last quarter of the nineteenth century, […].}}
Usage notes
* This is a catenative verb that takes the to infinitive . SeeDerived terms
* arrangementarrantest
English
Adjective
(head)arrant
English
Alternative forms
* (l) (obsolete)Adjective
(er)- arrant nonsense!'' Thomas Bennet, A Brief History of the Joint Use of Recompos'd Set Forms of Prayer...to wich is annexed a Discourse of the Gost of Prayer],
p. 187
- We are arrant knaves all; believe none of us.
Usage notes
Particularly used in the phrase “arrant' knaves”, quoting ''Hamlet,'' and “' arrant nonsense”.Safire, 2006, considers “arrant nonsense” to be “wedded words”, a form of a fixed phrase. Some dictionaries consider arrant simply an alternative form of errant, but in usage they have long since split. The word has long been considered archaic, may be confused with errant, and is used primarily in , on which basis some recommend against using it.References
arrant/errant”, Common Errors in English Usage, Paul Brians *
On Language: Arrant Nonsense, (William Safire), January 22, 2006, (New York Times) * Merriam–Webster’s dictionary of English usage, 1995,
“errant, arrant”, pp. 406–407