deraign
Britishverb
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law to contest (a claim, suit, etc)
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to arrange (soldiers) for battle
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of deraign
C13: from Old French deraisnier to defend, from Vulgar Latin ratiōnāre (unattested) to reason
Example Sentences
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If it had not, the question was ended; if it had, then we could proceed to deraign to those properly entitled to it.
From Proceedings of the Second National Conservation Congress at Saint Paul, September 5-8, 1910 by United States. National Conservation Congress
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