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.
Ar*ray" (&?;), n. [OE.
arai, arrai, OF. arrai,
arrei, arroi, order, arrangement, dress, F. arroi; a (L. ad) + OF.
rai, rei, roi, order, arrangement, fr. G. or Scand.; cf. Goth. raidjan, garaidjan, to arrange, MHG. gereiten,
Icel. reiði rigging, harness; akin to E. ready. Cf. Ready,
Greith, Curry.]
1. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement;
disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.
Wedged together in the closest array.
Gibbon.
2.
The whole body of persons thus placed in order; an orderly collection; hence, a body
of soldiers.
A gallant array of nobles and cavaliers.
Prescott.
3. An imposing series of things.
Their long array of sapphire and of gold.
Byron.
4. Dress; garments disposed in order upon
the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
Dryden.
5. (Law)
(a) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the
proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a
cause. (b)
The panel itself. (c)
The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the
court.
To challenge the array (Law), to except to
the whole panel. Cowell. Tomlins.
Blount. -- Commission of array (Eng. Hist.), a commission given by the prince
to officers in every county, to muster and
array the inhabitants,
or see them
in a condition for war. Blackstone.
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