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(obsolete) Disorder, disturbance.
(archaic) Disarray, confusion. quotations
[…] the exasperated Whigs […] were the men in fact that wrought the most deray among the populace.
1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 26
(obsolete) Disorderly merriment; partying. quotations
[…] there were pipes and fiddles, and as much dancing and deray within as used to be at Sir Robert’s house at Pace and Yule, and such high seasons […]
1824, Sir Walter Scott, Redgauntlet
third-person singular simple present derays, present participle deraying, simple past and past participle derayed
(archaic, transitive) To derange.
(archaic, intransitive) To become deranged; to go wild.