3 definitions found
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.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
arrayed
adj : in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia; "professors arrayed
in robes" [syn: {panoplied}]
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter
hanged to a lamppost.