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Webster 1913 Edition

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Verb.

[OF.

deraisnier

to explain, defend, to maintain in legal action by proof and reasonings, LL.

derationare

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de-

rationare

to discourse, contend in law, fr. L.

ratio

reason, in LL., legal cause. Cf.

, and see

To make ready to fight; to array.

[Obs.]

Darrain

your battle, for they are at hand.

Shakespeare

To fight out; to contest; to decide by combat.

[Obs.]

“To darrain the battle.”

Chaucer .

Verb.

To prepare, or to order; or to try; to endeavor; to prove; to apply to the contest.

But for thou art a worthy gentil knight, and wilnest to darraine hire by bataille.