deraign

present singular third person deraigns · participle present deraigning · participle past deraigned · past deraigned · alternative darraign · alternative darraigne · alternative darrain · alternative darraine · alternative darrayn · alternative darrayne · alternative derain · alternative dereine · alternative dereyne

1. obsoletetransitivelawTo prove or refute, especially through combat.
2. ambitransitiveobsoleteTo engage in battle or combat.

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

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto IV”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC

3. obsoletetransitiveTo determine or decide by combat; to fight out.

   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.

   2001, Scott Lynch-Giddings, A Fancyfull Historie of that Most Notable & Fameous Outlaw Robyn Hood, San Jose, Calif.: Writers Club Press, →ISBN, page 108

4. obsoletetransitiveTo ready or prepare for combat.