arraying

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Webster's Dictionary (GCIDE)

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. [1913 Webster]

By torch and trumpet fast arrayed, Each horseman drew his battle blade.— Campbell.[1913 Webster]
These doubts will be arrayed before their minds.— Farrar.[1913 Webster]

2.To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind. [1913 Webster]

Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen.— Gen. xli.?.[1913 Webster]
In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed.— Trumbull.[1913 Webster]

3.(Law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man. --Blackstone. [1913 Webster]

To array a panel, to set forth in order the men that are impaneled. --Cowell. --Tomlins. [1913 Webster]

Syn: To draw up; arrange; dispose; set in order. [1913 Webster]

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