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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



... sat in her dainty array of evening dress and watched with thoughts far away the mimic scene of love triumphant on the stage before her. When, on the painted canvas, a far-off snow-crowned mountain rose to their view, her heart seemed to creep to her throat and choke her, and when the orchestra ...
— That Girl Montana • Marah Ellis Ryan
... a ladie faire he saw, Standing alone on foote in foule array; To whom himself he hastily did draw, To weet the cause of so uncomely fray, And to depart them, if so ...
— The Buccaneer - A Tale • Mrs. S. C. Hall
... Syca, where they sat down and quickly built the Circle or centre of their wall of circumvallation. The Syracusans, appalled at the rapidity with which the work advanced, determined to go out against them and give battle and interrupt it; and the two armies were already in battle array, when the Syracusan generals observed that their troops found such difficulty in getting into line, and were in such disorder, that they led them back into the town, except part of the cavalry. These remained and hindered the Athenians from carrying stones or dispersing ...
— The History of the Peloponnesian War • Thucydides
... the name of this young hero. He was a member of the Second Company Orleans Cadets, afterwards Company E, Fifth Regiment, Louisiana Volunteers, Hay's Brigade, Array of Northern Virginia, and color-bearer of the regiment at the time the incident narrated below occurred. The story is ...
— Memories - A Record of Personal Experience and Adventure During Four Years of War • Fannie A. (Mrs.) Beers
... I don't know what's to be done," resumed Roland, growing quite hot with dismay and perplexity, at the prospect of some extra work for himself. "Look here!" exhibiting the parchments on Jenkins's desk, all so neatly left—"here's an array! Jenkins did not intend to stay away, when he left those last night, ...
— The Channings • Mrs. Henry Wood


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