disarray

What it means

1. transitiveTo throw into disorder; to break the array of.

   Who with fiery steeds / Oft disarray'd the foes in battle ranged.

   1726, Elijah Fenton, Odyssey

2. transitiveTo take off the dress of; to unrobe.

   So as she bad, that witch they disaraid

   1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book I, Canto VIII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC, stanza 46

In a sentence

Who with fiery steeds / Oft disarray'd the foes in battle ranged.

1726, Elijah Fenton, Odyssey

Where it comes from

1. Old Frenchdesareer
2. Middle Frenchdesarroyer
3. Middle Englishdisareyen“to disarray”
4. Englishdisarray

From Middle English disareyen (“to disarray”), from Middle French desarroyer, from Old French desareer, from des- (“dis-”) + areer (“to array”).