raign
English
[edit]Noun
[edit]raign (countable and uncountable, plural raigns)
Verb
[edit]raign (third-person singular simple present raigns, present participle raigning, simple past and past participle raigned)
- Obsolete spelling of rain..
- Obsolete spelling of reign..
- 1579, Plutarke of Chæronea [i.e., Plutarch], “Agis and Cleomenes”, in Thomas North, transl., The Lives of the Noble Grecians and Romaines, […], London: […] Richard Field, →OCLC, page 851:
- […] though he could not in money and riches come to be like vnto other kinges (bicauſe the ſlaues and factors onely of the kinges Seleucus and Ptolomy, had more money then all the kings of Sparta had together that euer raigned) […]