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.