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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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... given them to consolidate their strength—in laying before Parliament the condition of Ireland, and in referring to the causes by which it has been produced, her Majesty's servants affect an utter ignorance of the existence of a body which they heretofore thought it necessary to arraign, and by their silence tacitly exculpate from all blame those men at whose doors they formerly, and with justice, laid all the blood which has been shed, and all the crime which has ...

— Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 59, No. 367, May 1846 • Various

... in which they spoke of every person who visited me. According to their report, I was the mistress of all who presented themselves. 'Tis well for you, ye courtly dames, that you may convert friends into lovers with impunity; be the number ever so large none dares arraign your conduct; but for those of more humble pretensions it is indeed considered atrocious to number more than two admirers; should we ask to swell the list to a third—what comments, what scandal, what vilifying reports are in circulation! In this letter, my friend, I shall speak ...

— "Written by Herself" • Baron Etienne Leon Lamothe-Langon

... Nature, partial Nature! I arraign; Of thy caprice maternal I complain: The lion and the bull thy care have found, One shakes the forests, and one spurns the ground: Thou giv'st the ass his hide, the snail his shell, Th' envenom'd wasp, victorious, ...

— The Complete Works of Robert Burns: Containing his Poems, Songs, and Correspondence. • Robert Burns and Allan Cunningham

... in—ill-favoured, half-scared, sullen fellows; and the jury of Mexicans and Americans having been empanelled, the trial commenced. It certainly did appear to be a great assumption on the part of the Americans to conquer a country, and then arraign the revolting inhabitants for treason. American judges sat on the bench. New Mexicans and Americans filled the jury-box, and American soldiery guarded the halls. It was a strange mixture of violence and justice—a middle ground between ...

— The Old Santa Fe Trail - The Story of a Great Highway • Henry Inman

... natural to arraign the Christian Churches in connection with this disastrous outbreak. Unless they discharge the high task of the moral direction of men, in international as well as in personal conduct, they have no raison d'etre. Few of them to-day will plead that their function is merely to interpret to their ...

— The War and the Churches • Joseph McCabe

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