warray

verb

warray

verb

/ˈwɒɹi/ · /wəˈɹeɪ/

Etymology From Middle English werreyen, from Old Northern French werreier, from Vulgar Latin *werrizāre.

1

Obsolete To wage war against.

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

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