arraught

English

Etymology

The past tense of an old verb areach or arreach. Compare reach, obsolete preterite raught.

Adjective

arraught (not comparable)

1. (obsolete, poetic) obtained; seized
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto X”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC:

     Then his ambitious sonnes unto them twayne
     Arraught the rule, and from their father drew; <br<Stout Ferrex and sterne Porrex him in prison threw

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “arraught”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)