warray

English

Alternative forms

warrey

Etymology

From Middle English werreyen, from Old Northern French werreier, (Old French guerreier), from Vulgar Latin *werridiāre.

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /ˈwɒɹi/, /wəˈɹeɪ/

Verb

warray (third-person singular simple present warrays, present participle warraying, simple past and past participle warrayed)

(obsolete, transitive) To wage war against.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  And them long time before, great Nimrod was,
  That first the world with sword and fire warrayd […]

This article is issued from Wiktionary. The text is licensed under Creative Commons - Attribution - Sharealike. Additional terms may apply for the media files.