单词 | to array a battle |
释义 | > as lemmasto array a battle 1. To set or place in order of readiness, to marshall. esp. To draw up prepared for battle, and in obsolete phrase to array a battle. extracted from arrayv. a. literal. To raise in arms. See array n. 3. ΘΚΠ society > armed hostility > military operations > distribution of troops > [verb (transitive)] > draw up (troops) > in battle array setc1275 host1297 ordainc1300 devisec1325 battle1330 arraya1375 stuffc1390 addressa1393 embattle1393 fit?a1400 stedilla1400 fewterc1440 to pitch (also set) a fielda1500 order1509 pitcha1513 deraign1528 marshal1543 re-embattle1590 size1802 form1816 a1375 (c1350) William of Palerne (1867) l. 3561 To þe feld he went..his batailes to araie. a1382 Bible (Wycliffite, E.V.) (Douce 369(1)) (1850) Isa. liv. 11 I shal araie bi order thi stones. c1400 (?c1380) Cleanness (1920) l. 1442 Þe iueles out of Ierusalem..Bi þe syde of þe sale were semely arayed. 1489 (a1380) J. Barbour Bruce (Adv.) iii. 233 Hannyball his mekill mycht Aganys yaim arayit was. c1540 (?a1400) Destr. Troy xv. 6105 The secund batell..þe soueran araiet. 1576 W. Lambarde Perambulation of Kent 217 This place is of it selfe very fit..to array an hoast of men vpon. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. IV. xviii. 226 A force of thirteen thousand fighting men were arrayed in Hyde Park. 1879 J. R. O'Flanagan Munster Circuit 197 They could persecute any rebel with fire and sword; and for this purpose might array any of the queen's loyal subjects. b. figurative esp. in phr. To array against. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > set in opposition > line up in opposition to array1823 1823 Ld. Byron Island iii. x. 57 All round them seemed arrayed Against them. 1849 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. II. 375 On the other side were arrayed almost all the eminent forensic talents of the age. 1857 H. T. Buckle Hist. Civilisation Eng. I. vii. 341 To induce nearly the whole of the clergy to array themselves against Science. 1871 F. W. Farrar Witness of Hist. ii. 56 These doubts will be arrayed before their minds. < as lemmas |
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