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Definition of Abray
1. v. See Abraid.
Definition of Abray
1. Verb. (intransitive obsolete) To awake. ¹
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Definition of Abray
1. to awake [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: awake
Lexicographical Neighbors of Abray
Literary usage of Abray
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. A Dictionary of English Etymology by Hensleigh Wedgwood (1859)
"Where fearless I to sleep did down me lay, But whenas I did out of sleep
abray.— Troilus near out of his wit ..."
2. A Glossary of Tudor and Stuart Words: Especially from the Dramatists by Walter William Skeat, Anthony Lawson Mayhew (1914)
"... in Spenser, to start out of sleep, a swoon, to awake ; ' I did out of sleepe
abray', FQ iv. 6. ..."
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