disray

English

Verb

disray (third-person singular simple present disrays, present participle disraying, simple past and past participle disrayed)

1. Obsolete form of disarray.
   • 1659, T[itus] Livius [i.e., Livy], “(please specify the book number)”, in Philemon Holland, transl., The Romane Historie […], London: […] W. Hunt, for George Sawbridge, […], →OCLC:

     To come in manner of a sodaine tempest upon our armie […] and to put it in disray.

References

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

Anagrams

• riyads, yairds