beray
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beray
- /bɪˈɹeɪ/
Sounds like bewray · Rhymes with -eɪ
Where it comes from
From be- + ray (“to defile”), from Middle English rayen, an aphetic form of array.
verb berays · beraying · berayed
- To make foul; befoul; soil. [U]pon a vaine and fooliſh ſuperſtition, enjoining men to begrime and beray themſelves with durt, to lie and vvallovv in the mire, to obſerve Sabbaths and ceaſe from vvorke, to lie proſtrate and groveling upon the earth with the face dovvnevvard, to ſit upon the ground in open place, and to make man
