arraign
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English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Old French araisnier (“to address, to verify”) (whence modern arraisonner (“to verify cargo, to arraign”)), from raison (“reason”).
Pronunciation[edit]
Verb[edit]
arraign (third-person singular simple present arraigns, present participle arraigning, simple past and past participle arraigned)
- To officially charge someone in a court of law.
- 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.
- Dryden
Translations[edit]
charge someone in a court of law
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Noun[edit]
arraign (plural arraigns)
- Arraignment.
- the clerk of the arraigns
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