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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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