Dictionary entry

Array (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

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.