Array — Defs

01 n. Order; a regular and imposing arrangement; disposition in regular lines; hence, order of battle; as, drawn up in battle array.

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.
5.
A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.(Law)

Phrases & compounds

To challenge the array — to except to the whole panel.

Commission of array — 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.

02 v. t. To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to marshal.

imp. & p. p. Arrayed; p. pr. & vb. n. 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.” — 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.
To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a cause; that is, to call them man by man.(Law)

Phrases & compounds

To array a panel — to set forth in order the men that are impaneled.

Syn. To draw up; arrange; dispose; set in order.