v. Obs. [Etymol. unknown.] To rail at, revile, scold, rate; or ? to drive away. (If the latter is the sense, cf. Shakespeare’s AROINT.)
1399. Rich. Redeless, III. 221. ? Arounted [MS. has Arouutyd] ffor his ray [= array, dress] and rebuked ofte.
1496. Dives & Paup. (W. de W.), VII. iv. 280. Make the plesaunt in speche to the congregacyon of poore folke … and yelde thy dette & answere peasable thynges & mekenesse, not to arunt them ne rebuke them ne chyde them.
