1. to settle or decide (a dispute) by combat or trial; to vindicate or prove by combat
Usage: archaic; historical; chiefly used in medieval legal contexts
2. to arrange or put in order; to array or marshal
Usage: archaic; rare

Examples

• In medieval times, knights would deraign their disputes through trial by combat.
• The two parties agreed to deraign the matter before the king's court.
• The general deraigned his troops in preparation for battle.
• They sought to deraign their conflicting claims through judicial combat.
• The lord deraigned his forces along the border.