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 or gotten; 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;
     Stout Ferrex and sterne Porrex him in prison threw

References

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