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From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]:
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
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