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Array   /ərˈeɪ/   Listen
noun
Array  n.  
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."
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."
3.
An imposing series of things. "Their long array of sapphire and of gold."
4.
Dress; garments disposed in order upon the person; rich or beautiful apparel.
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.
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.


verb
Array  v. t.  (past & past part. arrayed; pres. part. arraying)  
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." "These doubts will be arrayed before their minds."
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." "In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed."
3.
(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.
Synonyms: To draw up; arrange; dispose; set in order.





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"Array" Quotes from Famous Books



... sleepy peace it lay, As satiate with the boundless play Of sunshine in its green array. And clear-cut hills of gloomy blue, To keep it safe rose up behind, As with a charmed ring to bind The grassy sea, where clouds might find A place ...
— Poems by Jean Ingelow, In Two Volumes, Volume I. • Jean Ingelow
... young by seeming, of scarce twenty summers; fair of face as a flower; grey-eyed, brown-haired, with lips full and red, slim and gentle of body. Simple was her array, of a short and strait green gown, so that on her right ankle was clear to see an ...
— The Wood Beyond the World • William Morris
... Michilimakinack surrendered to the British without resistance. The indefatigable Brock, with a reinforcement of 400 regulars, arrived at Maiden; and several Indian tribes, before hesitating in the choice of sides, began to take their ground and array themselves under the British standard." ...
— The Life and Correspondence of Sir Isaac Brock • Ferdinand Brock Tupper
... edifice, or bestowing the powder either on her neighbours or on the richly-flowered white brocade she wore; while she received the compliments, one after another, of ladies in even more gorgeous array, and gentlemen in velvet coats, adorned with gold lace, cravats of exquisite fabric, and diamond ...
— A Modern Telemachus • Charlotte M. Yonge
... marched over the hills along one of the muddy roads, and presently saw a vast array of tents, fires, and earthworks, stretching to the horizon. Harry's heart leaped again. This was the great army of the South. Here were regiments and regiments, thousands and thousands of men and here he would find his friends, Colonel Talbot ...
— The Guns of Bull Run - A Story of the Civil War's Eve • Joseph A. Altsheler


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