arraught

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English

Etymology

The past tense of an old verb areach or arreach. Compare reach, obsolete preterite raught.

Adjective

arraught (not comparable)

(obsolete, poetic) obtained or gotten; seized
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. , London: [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
  Then his ambitious sonnes unto them twayne
  Arraught the rule, and from their father drew;
  Stout Ferrex and sterne Porrex him in prison threw

References

“arraught”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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