Deraign

Alternative forms

• darrayne
• derain

Origin

From Old French deraisnier ("to explain, defend, to maintain in legal action by proof and reasonings"), from Late Latin derationare ("to discourse, contend in law").

Full definition of deraign

Verb

1. (legal, obsolete, transitive) To prove or to refute by proof, especially on threat of combat.
2. (obsolete) To engage in (battle, combat etc.).
• 1590, Edmund Spenser, The Faerie Queene, I.iv:Therewith they gan to hurtlen greedily,
  Redoubted battaile ready to darrayne,
  And clash their shields, and shake their swords on hy ....

Related terms

• darrain

Anagrams

• gradine, grained, inraged, reading, Reading