Crossword clues for arraying
arraying
The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.]
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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.
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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.
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(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
n. The act of clothing or adorning. vb. (present participle of array English)
Usage examples of "arraying".
The brute repose of Nature, the passionate cunning of man, the strongest of earthly metals, the wierdest of earthly elements, the unconquerable iron subdued by its only conqueror, the wheel and the ploughshare, the sword and the steam-hammer, the arraying of armies and the whole legend of arms, all these things are written, briefly indeed, but quite legibly, on the visiting-card of Mr.
Opprobrious, with his robe of righteousness, Arraying, covered from his Father's sight.
As her mother still kept beckoning to her, and arraying her face in a holiday suit of unaccustomed smiles, the child stamped her foot with a yet more imperious look and gesture.
Two soldiers thrust their lances into the ground and leapt down to run inside drawing their swords while the others began arraying themselves in two ranks.
Between them, Dannil began arraying the Two Rivers men in three ranks.
The wretched female, loveless victim of vulgar brutality, had wandered to the toilet of high-born beauty, and, arraying herself in the garb of splendour, had died before the mirror which reflected to herself alone her altered appearance.
The sight of the poetry eternized in these statues, took the sting from the thought, arraying it only in poetic ideality.
Instead he had to wait while the ponderous ceremony of the arraying of the Coronal's guard took place: the great burly shaggy Skandar, Zalzan Kavol, who was the chief of his guards, shouting and waving his four arms officiously about, and the men and women in their impressive green-and-gold uniforms emerging from their floaters and forming a living enfilade to hold back the gaping populace, and the royal musicians setting up the royal anthem, and much more like that, until at last Sleet and Tunigorn came to the royal floater and opened its royal doors to allow the Coronal and his consort to step forth into the golden warmth of the day.
Yamun didn't wait to see his orders executed, but wheeled his horse about and set to the business of arraying his ten thousand.
They were arraying themselves on all sides of the pad, facing outward as was proper.
He returned at half-past ten and found the widow dressing, arraying herself in a pink domino and a blonde wig.