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Definition of Arraign
1. Verb. Call before a court to answer an indictment. "They want to arraign the prisoners "
2. Verb. Accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy.
Definition of Arraign
1. v. t. To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.
2. n. Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.
3. v. t. To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.
Definition of Arraign
1. Verb. To officially charge someone in a court of law. ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Arraign
1. to call before a court of law to answer an indictment [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Arraign
Literary usage of Arraign
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Appletons' Annual Cyclopædia and Register of Important Events of the Year (1887)
"We arraign the Republican leaders, and charge them with being the authors and
instigators of these crimes against the purity of the ballot-box : but whether ..."
2. The History of the Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire by Edward Gibbon (1831)
"... and his veracity is not disputed by Agathias,(64) while he presumes to dissent
from his judgment, and to arraign the wisdom of a Christian emperor", ..."
3. The Works of Alexander Hamilton: Containing His Correspondence, and His by Alexander Hamilton (1851)
"arraign not the dispensations of Providence. They must be founded in wisdom and
goodness, and when they do not suit us, it must be because there is some ..."
4. An universal etymological English dictionaryby Nathan Bailey by Nathan Bailey (1724)
"... to arraign THE ASSIZE, [L.» f ' ARMOURER, ... F. Ar-\ To arraign A PRISONER,^;«
... arraign ..."
5. History of the Discovery and Settlement of the Valley of the Mississippi: By by John Wesley Monette (1848)
"Burr appears before the Superior Court.—Patriotic Citizens of Wilkinson
County.—Abortive Attempt to arraign Burr.—He escapes from Custody. ..."
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