Darrayne vs Deraign - What's the difference?
darrayne | deraign | Alternative forms |
(legal, obsolete, transitive) To prove or to refute by proof, especially on threat of combat.
(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 [...].
