deraign

Definitions

1. To prove or refute, especially through combat.
   obsolete, transitive
2. To engage in battle or combat.
   ambitransitive, obsolete
3. To determine or decide by combat; to fight out.
   obsolete, transitive
4. To ready or prepare for combat.
   obsolete, transitive

Examples

“Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily, / Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne, / And clash their shields, and shake⟳ their swords on hy [...].”

“Now everything I had or sought, I've lost; / Upon a glimpse, I am disparadised. / So: go defiant to the nether world, / And darreign^([sic]) Lucifer's dread minions to / Worse torment than thou wouldst do thyself.”

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