v. Obs. [UN-2 4.] trans. To deprive of array; esp. to undress, disrobe.
14[?]. Chaucer’s Sqr.’s T., 173 (Camb. MS.). This knyght … is on-arayed [other MSS. vnarmed] & to mete i-set.
a. 1483. Liber Niger, in S. Pegge, Cur. Misc. (1782), 79. Two [Esquires of the Body] to be attendant on the King’s person to array and unarray him.
1483. Cath. Angl., 12/1. To vn Aray, exornare, & cetera: vbi to dysaray.
1590. Stockwood, Eng. Accidence, 65. This verbe exuo, of araying, or rather indeed of vnaraying, hath two accusative cases.
1601. Lambarde, Dict. Angl. Topogr. (1730), 69. She forthwith unarrayed her selfe, untrussed her Heare.
