foraying

Verb

foray (third-person singular simple present forays, present participle foraying, simple past and past participle forayed)

1. To participate in a foray.
   • The people of Granada resumed all at once their ancient activity, foraying into the Christian territories, surprising Alhendin and some other places of less importance, and stirring up the spirit of revolt in Guadix and other conquered cities.1837, William Hickling Prescott, History of the Reign of Ferdinand and Isabella, the Catholic
2. To do or attempt something outside one's typical area of expertise.
   • "It seems as though I have lived this life always. The world of books and bookish folk is very vague, more like a dream memory than an actuality. I surely have hunted and forayed and fought all the days of my life. And you, too, seem a part of it. You are -- " I was on the verge of saying, "my...1904, Jack London, chapter 30, in The Sea-Wolf (Macmillan’s Standard Library), New York, N.Y.: Grosset & Dunlap, →OCLC
3. (archaic, transitive) To scour an area for goods as part of a foray.
   • He bad to open wyde his brazen gate,
     Which long time had bene shut, and out of hond
     Proclaymed joy and peace through all his state;
     For dead now was their foe which them forrayed late.1590, Edward Spenser, The Faerie Queene

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