Meaning of frain | Babel Free

Definitions

To ask, inquire.

dialectal, obsolete, transitive

Equivalents

Examples

“Ones yet agayne Of you I wolde frayne, Why come⟳ ye nat to court ?”

“Theyr myndes disdayne: Gods actes to frain …”

“And so answerd ever when so the said Umphra frayned the said Thomas; and otherwaies this examinate never hard the said Thomas speak⟳ anything of himself to any bodye, duringe the spaic of an hower or more, that this examinate was with the said Thomas.”

“I, musing, frain'd her meaning: she / Her meaning thus did tell⟳.”

“Nor far had spurr'd the warrior, ere a crew Of hinds and sun-burnt woodmen met his view⟳, Frayn'd by the knight, they told, a beauteous maid, Who, loudly shrieking, call'd on heav'n for aid, [...]”

“But Jesus stood before the count⟳; yea the count⟳ frayned him, quothing, thou is king of the Jews? but Jesus quoth to him, thou quoths.”

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