unaˈrrayed, ppl. a.
[un-1 8.]
1. Not arrayed or put in order.
| c 1340 Hampole Prose Tr. 28 If þou..latis þame spill for defaute of kepynge—unarayede, unkepide,..thou pleses Hym noghte. 1390 Gower Conf. III. 175, I sih also The noble peple of Irahel Dispers as schep upon an hell, With⁓oute a kepere unarraied. c 1400 Brut 13 Whan Humbar saw hem come, he was sore adrad, forasmyche as his men wist it not, & also þey were vnarrayed. 1727 Bailey (vol. II), Unarrayed, not ranged in Order of Battle. |
2. Not dressed; unclothed; unarmed.
| c 1380 Sir Ferumb. 821 Duke Roland þan was sore amayed, So wern þe doþþepers,..for þay wern oun-araid. c 1440 York Myst. xxiv. 6 We will bere witnesse..How we hir raysed all vnarayed,..Wher sche was with hir leman laide. a 1450 Knt. de la Tour (1906) 153 There shall now be sheued you of the good ladyes that were vnaraied, duellynge in Rome. 1611 Cotgr., Desabillé, vncloathed, vndressed, vnarrayed. 1665 Dryden Ind. Emp. i. i, As if this Infant World, yet unarray'd, Naked and bare, in Nature's Lap were laid. 1685 ― Thren. August. 54 Half unarray'd he ran to his Relief, So hasty and so artless was his Grief. 1839 Bailey Festus 187 Thou art as the cloudless moon, Undimmed and unarrayed; No robe hast thou. |