Array

Definition of Array

Ar`ray´

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.

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.

An imposing series of things.

Their long array of sapphire and of gold.

- Byron.

Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.

(Law) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.

To challenge the array
(Law) to except to the whole panel.

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. - Cowell.

v. t.

To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.

[imp. & p. p. Arrayed ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Arraying.]

By torch and trumpet fast arrayed,
Each horseman drew his battle blade.

- Campbell.

These doubts will be arrayed before their minds.

- Farrar.

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.

(Law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.

To array a panel
to set forth in order the men that are impaneled. - Cowell.

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