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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



... still distant about a league, lay the French vessels, drawn up in beautiful array, and in an order so close, and a line so regular, as to induce the belief that M. de Vervillin had made his dispositions to receive the expected attack, in his present position. All his main-top-sails lay flat aback; the top-gallant-sails were flying loose, but with buntlings ...
— The Two Admirals • J. Fenimore Cooper

... Grimhild goes from the chamber, and bringeth his harness of war, And therewith they array his body, and he drinketh the cup once more, And his heart is set on the murder, and now may he understand What soul is dight for the slaying, and what quarry is for his hand. For again they tell him of Sigurd, and the man he remembereth, And praiseth his mighty name and his deeds that ...
— The Story of Sigurd the Volsung • William Morris

... "Henry VIII." at the opera in Paris] No one rejoices more than I in the success of Saint-Saens. There is no doubt that he deserves it; but fortune, grand sovereign of doubtful manners, is often in no hurry to array herself on the ...
— Letters of Franz Liszt, Volume 2: "From Rome to the End" • Franz Liszt; letters collected by La Mara and translated

... dear," cried Patty, jumping up and flying across the room to give her stepmother a hearty caress. "Whatever would I do without you? I'm all right now, and if you'll just elocute that thing, while I array myself in purple and fine linen, I'm sure it will all come ...
— Patty's Summer Days • Carolyn Wells

... gradually traced down all organic forms, or, in other words, we have analyzed the present condition of animated nature, until we found that each species took its origin in a form similar to that under which all the others commence their existence. We have found the whole of the vast array of living forms, with which we are surrounded, constantly growing, increasing, decaying and disappearing; the animal constantly attracting, modifying, and applying to its sustenance the matter of the vegetable kingdom, which derived its support from the absorption and conversion of inorganic matter. ...
— Lectures and Essays • T.H. Huxley


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