Arraying

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Array \Ar*ray"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Arrayed}; p. pr. & vb. n.
     {Arraying}.] [OE. araien, arraien, fr. OE. arraier, arreier,
     arreer, arroier, fr. arrai. See {Array}, n.]
     1. To place or dispose in order, as troops for battle; to
        marshal.
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              By torch and trumpet fast arrayed,
              Each horseman drew his battle blade.  --Campbell.
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              These doubts will be arrayed before their minds.
                                                    --Farrar.
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     2. To deck or dress; to adorn with dress; to cloth to
        envelop; -- applied esp. to dress of a splendid kind.
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              Pharaoh . . . arrayed him in vestures of fine linen.
                                                    --Gen. xli.?.
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              In gelid caves with horrid gloom arrayed.
                                                    --Trumbull.
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     3. (Law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a
        cause; that is, to call them man by man. --Blackstone.
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     {To array a panel}, to set forth in order the men that are
        impaneled. --Cowell. --Tomlins.
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     Syn: To draw up; arrange; dispose; set in order.
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