Array
Array ({not transcribed}) , noun
[Old English arai, arrai, Old French arrai, arrei, arroi, order, arrangement, dress, French arroi; a (Latin ad) + Old French rai, rei, roi, order, arrangement, from German or Scand.; compare Gothic raidjan, garaidjan, to arrange, Middle High German gereiten, Icelandic reiei rigging, harness; akin to English ready. Compare Ready, Greith, Curry.]
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. — Dryden
5.
(a) (Law) A ranking or setting forth in order, by the proper officer, of a jury as impaneled in a cause.
(b)
(Law) The panel itself.
(c)
(Law) The whole body of jurors summoned to attend the court.
Collocations (2)
To challenge the array (Law) , to except to the whole panel. — Cowell
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. — Blackstone
Array ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb
[Old English araien, arraien, from Old English arraier, arreier, arreer, arroier, from arrai. See Array, n.]
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. — Blackstone
Collocations (1)
To array a panel , to set forth in order the men that are impaneled. — Cowell