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Definition of Affray
1. Noun. Noisy quarrel.
Generic synonyms: Dustup, Quarrel, Row, Run-in, Words, Wrangle
Specialized synonyms: Batrachomyomachia
2. Noun. A noisy fight.
Definition of Affray
1. v. t. To startle from quiet; to alarm.
2. n. The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack.
Definition of Affray
1. Noun. The act of suddenly disturbing any one; an assault or attack. ¹
2. Noun. A tumultuous assault or quarrel. ¹
3. Noun. The fighting of two or more persons, in a public place, to the terror of others. ¹
4. Verb. To startle from quiet; to alarm. ¹
5. Verb. To frighten; to scare; to frighten away. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Affray
1. to frighten [v -ED, -ING, -S] - See also: frighten
Lexicographical Neighbors of Affray
Literary usage of Affray
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"affray 153. An affray is the fighting of two or more persons in a public place,
to the terror of the people, and is a misdemeanor.2 * An affray differs from ..."
2. The Encyclopædia of Pleading and Practice by William Mark McKinney, Thomas Johnson Michie (1895)
"An affray is the fighting together of two or more persons, ... The indictment
for an affray need only follow the language of the statute defining a crime. ..."
3. Handbook of Criminal Law by William Lawrence Clark, William Ephraim Mikell (1915)
"affray 153. An affray is the fighting of two or more persons in a public place,
... An affray differs from a riot in that there must be premeditation and at ..."
4. American State Trials: A Collection of the Important and Interesting by John Davison Lawson, Robert Lorenzo Howard (1921)
"There were four or five did not know; saw the defend- clubs when the affray com-
engaged in the affray whom I men with Cassidy, and two or ants on the ..."
5. A Digest of the Law of Evidence in Criminal Cases by Henry Roscoe, Thomas Colpitts Granger, George Sharswood (1852)
"[ * ] •affray. An affray is the fighting of two or more persons in some public
place, to the ter of the king's subjects; for if the fighting be in private, ..."
6. A Manual of Elementary Law: Being a Summary of the Well-settled Elementary by William Pinckney Fishback (1896)
"affray.—An affray is the fighting together of two or more persons, ... Prize fighting
as it is now practiced is not an affray, but it is made a misdemeanor ..."
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