Arraign

Definition of Arraign

Ar`raign´
v. t.1.(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.
[imp. & p. p. Arraigned ( ); p. pr. & vb. n. Arraigning.]
2.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.
- Dryden.
It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.
- I. Taylor.
n.1.Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.
v. t.1.(Old Eng. Law) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

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