Meanings
adjectivearraught (not comparable)
- not comparableobsoletepoeticobtained or gotten; seized
Then his ambitious sonnes unto them twayne Arraught the rule, and from their father drew; Stout Ferrex and sterne Porrex him in prison threw
1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC
Origin
The past tense of an old verb areach or arreach. Compare reach, obsolete preterite raught.
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