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▪ I. deray, n. arch.|dɪˈreɪ|
Also 4 derai, 4–5 derray(e, dray, 5 derei; β. 4–5 desray(e. See also disray.
[a. OF. desrei, desrai, later desroi, derei, derai, deroi, f. tonic stem of desreer: see deray v., also array v., disarray.]
†1. Disorder, disturbance, tumult, confusion. to make deray: to create a disturbance, act violently and noisily. Obs. (or arch.).
c1300K. Alis. 1177 He tok Alisaundre this deray, For to amende gef he may. c1320Sir Tristr. 3165 On canados sche gan crie And made gret deray. c1420Anturs of Arth. xl, Querto draues thou so dreȝghe, and mace suche deray? c1470Henry Wallace vi. 239 The schirreff cryt: Quha makis that gret deray? 1513Douglas æneis vii. x. 77 Turnus was by, and amyd this deray, This hait fury of slauchtyr, and fell afray.
βa1330Fragm. Alexander, in Rouland & V. (1836) p. xxiii, Ther men might reuthe y-sen Muchel desray, muchel gredeing. 1485Caxton Chas. Gt. 239 Wherof they maad grete noyse and desraye.
†b. Impetuosity; display of vigour or prowess.
c1300K. Alis. 2721 Sone he say A yong knyght, also of gret deray..Ageyns him he gynneth to ride. c1325Coer de L. 502 The aventerous with gret deray So hard to our knyght he droff, Hys schelde in twoo peses roff.
c. Disarray, confusion. modern archaism.
1831Hogg in Fraser's Mag. IV. 425 Whose beauty, form, and manners bland, Have wrought deray through all the land. 1850Blackie æschylus II. 196 Him struck dismay In wild deray. 1872― Lays Highl. 82 They rove the vest, and in deray They flung her on the floor.
†2. Disorderly action towards any one; violence, injury, insolent ill-treatment. to do or make deray to: to do violence to; to disturb, molest. Obs.
c1300Cursor M. 23346 (Cott.) If þai suld for þaa feluns prai, It war gain godd and gret derai. c1340Ibid. 15568 (Trin.) Þou sal se hem ȝitt to nyȝt do me greet deray. 1375Barbour Bruce xv. 438 Lordyngis, it war my will Till mak end of the gret deray That dowglass makis vs ilk day. c1440York Myst. xxvii. 121 Peter I have prayed for the So that thou schall noȝt drede his dray. c1450Guy Warw. (C.) 4336 Who hath done þe all þys deraye. 1480Caxton Ovid's Met. xii. xix, Achylles was full of desraye and inyquyte, and drewe the body of Hector by grete woodenes. a1550Freiris of Berwik 536 In thy depairting se thow mak no deray Vnot no wicht, bot frely pass thy way.
3. Disorderly mirth and revelry as in a dance or similar festivity. Chiefly in the alliterative phrase dancing and deray. arch.
1500–20Dunbar Poems lxxviii. 14 For din, nor danceing, nor deray, It will nocht walkin me no wise. 1513Douglas æneis i. xi. heading, Off the bancat, and of the greit deray, And how Cupide inflambes the lady gay. a1550Christis Kirke Gr. i, Wes nevir in Scotland hard nor sene Sic dansing nor deray. 1807J. Stagg Poems 65 Wi' lowpin', dancin' and deray. 1824Scott Redgauntlet Let. xi, There was..dancing and deray within. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. I. ii. i. xii, So have we seen fond weddings..celebrated with an outburst of triumph and deray, at which the elderly shook their heads. 1892Daily News 2 Dec. 5/2 The dancing and deray were so public that all classes had their share of the fun.
¶4. erron. for array.
1538Aberdeen Reg. V. 16 (Jam.) To be in thair best deray ilk persone.
▪ II. † deray, v. Obs.|dɪˈreɪ|
Also dray.
[a. OF. desreer, -reier, -rayer, later desroier, derroyer, derayer, = Pr. desreiar, It. disredare:— Rom. type *des-rēdāre, f. L. dis- + -rēdāre, f. *rēdo preparation, order: see array. (The atonic stem in OF. was desre-, the tonic desrei-, -rai-, -roi-, which was afterwards extended to the inf. and other atonic forms.)]
refl. and intr. To act or behave in a disorderly manner; to rage.
1340–70Alisaunder 883 Nectanabus..graithes him sone Deraide as a dragoun dreedful in fight. c1350Will. Palerne 1210 Þus despitusly þe duk drayed him þanne. Ibid. 2061 He deraied him as a deuel.
¶ Used for deraign v.1 [Confusion of derayne with infin. deraye(n.]
c1314Guy Warw. (A.) 3915 Finde a Sarrazin oþer a kniȝt, & he schal anoþer finde, Þat schal deray[ne] his riȝt kinde. c1325Coer de L. 5456 Wylt thou graunt with spere and scheeld Deraye the ryght in the feelde. |