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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Array \Ar*ray"\, verb (used with an object) [imp. & p. p. {Arrayed}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Arraying}.] [OE. araien, arraien, fr. OE. arraier, arreier, arreer, arroier, fr. arrai. See {Array}, noun]
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) 2.0 [wn]:
arrayed
adjective: in ceremonial attire and paraphernalia; "professors arrayed in robes" [syn: {panoplied}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
71 Moby Thesaurus words for "arrayed": aligned, appareled, armed, arranged, assorted, attired, battled, bedecked, breeched, capped, categorized, chausse, clad, classified, cloaked, clothed, coifed, composed, constituted, costumed, decked, deployed, dight, disguised, disposed, dressed, embattled, endued, engaged, fixed, garbed, garmented, gowned, graded, grouped, habilimented, habited, harmonized, hooded, in battle array, invested, liveried, mantled, marshaled, methodized, normalized, ordered, orderly, organized, pantalooned, placed, raimented, ranged, ranked, regularized, regulated, rigged out, robed, routinized, shod, shoed, sorted, standardized, synchronized, systematized, tired, togged, tricked out, trousered, vested, vestmented
From THE DEVIL'S DICTIONARY ((C)1911 Released April 15 1993) [devils]:
ARRAYED, pp. Drawn up and given an orderly disposition, as a rioter hanged to a lamppost.
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