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ARRAYED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
In ceremonial attire and paraphernalia
Example:
professors arrayed in robes
Synonyms:
arrayed; panoplied
Classified under:
Similar:
clad; clothed (wearing or provided with clothing; sometimes used in combination)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb array
Context examples:
“And whom have I to thank for this kindness?” I asked, when I stood completely arrayed, a tiny boy’s cap on my head, and for coat a dirty, striped cotton jacket which ended at the small of my back and the sleeves of which reached just below my elbows.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
NCI Initiative to integrate the cytogenetic and physical maps of the human genome, generate a repository of BAC clones arrayed across the genetic and physical map, and to develop a publicly available database displaying this clone repository and providing a platform for correlation with other databases of chromosomal aberrations, as well as clinical and histopathological information.
(Cancer Chromosome Aberration Project, NCI Thesaurus)
His mind seemed to turn, on the instant, into a vast camera obscura, and he saw arrayed around his consciousness endless pictures from his life, of stoke-holes and forecastles, camps and beaches, jails and boozing-kens, fever-hospitals and slum streets, wherein the thread of association was the fashion in which he had been addressed in those various situations.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Now let us see how far the general powers arrayed against us are restrict, and how the individual cannot.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
That mighty brain and that iron resolution went with him to his grave, and are even now arrayed against us.
(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)
