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English
Etymology
From Old French derroi, desroi, desrei, from des- (from Latin dis-) + roi, rei, rai (“order”). See array and disarray.
Pronunciation
Noun
deray
- (obsolete) Disorder, disturbance.
- (archaic) Disarray, confusion.
1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 26:[…] the exasperated Whigs […] were the men in fact that wrought the most deray among the populace.
- (obsolete) Disorderly merriment; partying.
1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet:[…] there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert’s house at Pace and Yule, and such high seasons […]
Verb
deray (third-person singular simple present derays, present participle deraying, simple past and past participle derayed)
- (archaic, transitive) To derange.
- (archaic, intransitive) To become deranged; to go wild.
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