Definition: arraying

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Source: Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) 

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.

            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. (Law) To set in order, as a jury, for the trial of a
      cause; that is, to call them man by man. --Blackstone.

   To array a panel, to set forth in order the men that are
      impaneled. --Cowell. --Tomlins.

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