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darraign
DAR-ayn
verb
to ready for battle
1591William ShakespeareKing Henry VIMESSENGER: Royal commanders, be in readiness; | For with a band of thirty thousand men | Comes Warwick, backing of the Duke of York, | And in the towns, as they do march along, | Proclaims him king, and many fly to him. | Darraign your battle, for they are at hand. 1885Sir Richard Francis BurtonThe Book of the Thousand Nights and a NightThen Luka went out from the presence and the accursed one mounted a sorrel horse; he was clad in a red robe and a hauberk of gold set with jewels, and he bore a trident spear, as he were Iblis the damned on the day of drewing out his hosts war to darraign.

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