Hypertext Webster Gateway: "arrayed"

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) 1.7 (wn)

arrayed
adj : in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia; "professors arrayed
in robes" [syn: {panoplied}]


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