An archaic legal or military term meaning to arrange, prepare, or marshal forces for battle, or to make ready for legal proceeding.
From Old French 'darrener,' meaning to arrange or prepare, possibly with Germanic influences. Common in medieval English legal and military contexts, it became obsolete by the 18th century.
Medieval knights would 'darraign their forces' before battle, and the word appears in old legal documents about arranging court proceedings—it's a perfectly useful word that just fell out of fashion!
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