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.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
 

Array \Ar*ray"\, n. [OE. arai, arrai, OF. arrai, arrei, arroi, order, arrangement, dress, F. arroi; a (L. ad) + OF. rai, rei, roi, order, arrangement, fr. G. or Scand.; cf. Goth. raidjan, garaidjan, to arrange, MHG. gereiten, Icel. rei[eth]i rigging, harness; akin to E. ready. Cf. Ready, Greith, Curry.]

1. 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.

2. 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.

3. An imposing series of things.

Their long array of sapphire and of gold. --Byron.

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

5. (Law)
   (a) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
   (b) The panel itself.
   (c) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.

To challenge the array (Law), to except to the whole panel. --Cowell. --Tomlins. --Blount.

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. --Blackstone.

Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)