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/ərˈeɪn/ Listen

noun

Arraign n. Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.

verb

Arraign v. t. (past & past part. arraigned; pres. part. arraigning)

(Law) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal. "They will not arraign you for want of knowledge." "It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world."

Synonyms: To accuse; impeach; charge; censure; criminate; indict; denounce. See Accuse.

Arraign v. t. (Old Eng. Law) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

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... advent of Revolutions not only in France, but in all lands; and that British and Hessians would live to bless the day when they were defeated by the soldiers of Washington. He then proceeded to arraign all Governments of the old type, and asserted that constitutions ought to be the natural outcome of the collective activities of the whole people. There was nothing mysterious about Government, if Courts had not hidden away the patent fact that it dealt primarily ...

— William Pitt and the Great War • John Holland Rose

... warned "those who have spoken on the other side to-day, that they had better exercise the privilege of revising their words, and that it will be well for others to pause before they speak in defense of the great criminal whom the American people arraign for ...

— Twenty Years of Congress, Volume 2 (of 2) • James Gillespie Blaine

... salvation of Russia, was not disposed to leave that work half accomplished. All knew that the infamous Alexis would shrink from no crime, and there was ample evidence of his treasonable plots. The father now deliberately resolved to arraign his son for high treason, a crime which doomed him to death. Aware of the awful solemnity of such a moment, and of the severity with which his measures and his motives would be sifted by posterity, he proceeded with the greatest, ...

— The Empire of Russia • John S. C. Abbott

... solid men prevailed, the sheriff and those who aided him might have been hung to a gibbet erected in the court-house yard. On the fifteenth Captain Cochran and forty Green Mountain Boys, who had been apprised of the terrible affair, marched over the mountain to arraign themselves upon the side of the Whigs if the matter should come to real warfare. But fortunately further bloodshed was averted, and never again did a Tory judiciary hold ...

— With Ethan Allen at Ticonderoga • W. Bert Foster

... on the table that stood near him the gold of Chateauroy's insult. She had listened with a bewildering wonder, held in check by the haughtier impulse of offense, that a man in this grade could venture thus to address, thus to arraign her. His words were totally incomprehensible to her, though, by the grave rebuke of his manner, she saw that they were fully meant, and, as he considered, fully authorized by some wrong done to him. As he laid the gold pieces down upon ...

— Under Two Flags • Ouida [Louise de la Ramee]

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