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Webster 1913 Edition


Arraign

Ar-raign′

,
Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Arraigned
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Arraigning
.]
[OE.
arainen
,
arenen
, OF.
aragnier
,
aranier
,
araisnier
, F.
arraisonner
, fr. LL.
arrationare
to address to call before court; L.
ad
+
ratio
reason, reasoning, LL. cause, judgment. See
Reason
.]
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.
Blackstone.
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.
Syn. – To accuse; impeach; charge; censure; criminate; indict; denounce. See
Accuse
.

Ar-raign′

,
Noun.
Arraignment;
as, the clerk of the
arraigns
.
Blackstone. Macaulay.

Ar-raign′

,
Verb.
T.
[From OF.
aramier
, fr. LL.
adhramire
.]
(Old Eng. Law)
To appeal to; to demand;
as, to
arraign
an assize of novel disseizin
.

Webster 1828 Edition


Arraign

ARRA'IGN

v.t. arra'ne. [L. reus, contracted from the root of res.]
1.
To call or set a prisoner at the bar of a court, to answer to the matter charged against him in an indictment or information. When called, the indictment is read to him, and he is put to plead, guity or not guilty, and to elect by whom he will be tried.
2.
According to Law writers, to set in order; to fit for trial; as, to arraign a writ of novel disscisin. To arraign the assize, is to cause the tenant to be called to make the plaint, and set the cause in order, that the tenant may be brought to answer.
3.
To accuse; to charge with faults. More correctly, to call before the bar of reason, or taste; to call in question, for faults before any tribunal.
They will not arraign you for want of knowledge.

Definition 2024


arraign

arraign

English

Verb

arraign (third-person singular simple present arraigns, present participle arraigning, simple past and past participle arraigned)

  1. To officially charge someone in a court of law.
  2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
    • Dryden
      They will not arraign you for want of knowledge.
    • I. Taylor
      It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.

Translations

Noun

arraign (plural arraigns)

  1. arraignment
    the clerk of the arraigns
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