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, Withoute 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., Disabillé, 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. Ibid. (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.
