deray

English

Etymology

From Old French derroi, desroi, desrei, from des- (from Latin dis-) + roi, rei, rai (“order”). See array and disarray.

Pronunciation
  • IPA(key): /dɪˈɹeɪ/

Noun

deray

  1. (obsolete) Disorder, disturbance.
  2. (archaic) Disarray, confusion.
    • 1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford 2010, p. 26:
      […] the exasperated Whigs […] were the men in fact that wrought the most deray among the populace.
  3. (obsolete) Disorderly merriment; partying.

Verb

deray (third-person singular simple present derays, present participle deraying, simple past and past participle derayed)

  1. (archaic, transitive) To derange.
  2. (archaic, intransitive) To become deranged; to go wild.

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