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To array a panel

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.