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Arrayed

Array \Ar*ray"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arrayed; p. pr. & vb. n. Arraying.] [OE. araien, arraien, fr. OE. arraier, arreier, arreer, arroier, fr. arrai. See Array, n.]

  1. To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.

    By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade.
    --Campbell.

    These doubts will be arrayed before their minds.
    --Farrar.

  2. To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.

    Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen.
    --Gen. xli.?.

    In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed.
    --Trumbull.

  3. (Law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.
    --Blackstone.

    To array a panel, to set forth in order the men that are impaneled.
    --Cowell.
    --Tomlins.

    Syn: To draw up; arrange; dispose; set in order.

Wiktionary
arrayed

vb. (en-past of: array)

WordNet
arrayed

adj. in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia; "professors arrayed in robes" [syn: panoplied]

Usage examples of "arrayed".

On some long shelves against the wall by the door was arrayed a vast series of cruets, ampoules, jugs, pots, filled with substances of different colors.

Then, as if to dispel that lemur, my mind turned to other images of which the memory was a fresh receptacle, and I could not avoid seeing, clear before my eyes (the eyes of the soul, but almost as if it appeared before my fleshly eyes), the image of the girl, beautiful and terrible as an army arrayed for battle.

I mention this to you because I know that in remote times, when you would have been closer to me, you fought as did I—and those like me—in that field where the forces of good are arrayed against the forces of evil.

There were pages of notes arrayed neatly beside each of these projects.

Other sparks jumped and careened, arcing back to the sword points arrayed in ominous fans behind and around the Iron Throne.

It looked Re a stampede of Jihad battleships, suddenly doubling the numbers of human defenders arrayed against the thinking machine forces.

The white-robed prophet stood on the crest of a dune, speaking to a throng of followers arrayed below him.

His Jihad forces here could not possibly withstand the might Omnius had arrayed against him.

This time, with so many robotic warships arrayed against the Army of the Jihad, nothing could go wrong.

Norma closed her eyes and let calculations run across the window of her mind, long rows and columns of numbers and mathematical symbols, as if they were arrayed in space.

Once Omnius understood the massive swift force arrayed against him, he would cower on his remaining Synchronized Worlds, never daring to launch any further aggression.

I could see the undocked Starfleet vessels shielded and arrayed in protective formation around the defenseless Andorian liner and Earth courier, a thousand meters out from Deep Space Three.

I glanced out at the shadowy marks of all those other empty egg-hollows, arrayed in concentric arcs farther away from the leap of flames, and my suspicions deepened.

I suspected the fierce wall of Nykkus arrayed shoulder to shoulder behind my back, teeth bared and frills defiantly erect, also had a salutary impression on him.

I want the Dufaux to see this vessel, a symbol of everything that they turned away from, coming right down their throat surrounded by an army of vessels arrayed against them.