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单词 to array a battle
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to 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.
a. literal. To raise in arms. See array n. 3.
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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.
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the world > action or operation > difficulty > opposition > oppose [verb (transitive)] > set in opposition > line up in opposition to
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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.
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