warray
English
Alternative forms
Etymology
From Middle English werreyen, from Old Northern French werreier, from Vulgar Latin *werrizāre.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwɒɹi/, /wəˈɹeɪ/
Verb
warray (third-person singular simple present warrays, present participle warraying, simple past and past participle warrayed)
- (obsolete, transitive) To wage war against.
- 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto V”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:
- And them long time before, great Nimrod was,
That first the world with sword and fire warrayd […]
Gamilaraay
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈwaraj/
Verb
warray
References
- (2003) Gamilaraay Yuwaalaraay Yuwaalayaay Dictionary