arraignable

English[edit]

arraignable (not comparable)

(law) Capable of being arraigned.
- 1642, anonymous author, Reasons Why This Kingdome Ought to Adhere to the Parliament‎^[1], London, page 11:
  […] if a Parliament be triable and arraignable before the King himselfe: Then hath the King an unlimited declarative power of Law above all Courts, in his own breast;
- 1755, anonymous author, Serious Reflections on the Manifold Dangers Attending the Use of Copper Vessels‎^[2], London: M. Cooper, page 32:
  […] however I may be arraignable for any Error in my Judgment, I am perfectly free from aught of Sinister in my Intention with regard to the present Matter.
(law) For which a person is liable to be arraigned.
- 1881, T. W. Rolleston, letter dated 29 January, 1881, in Whitman and Rolleston: A Correspondence, Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1952, p. 22,^[3]
  Their words may not have been arraignable by law, (though in many cases they were so) but they were such as their hearers could give but one interpretation to.
- 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld‎^[4], New York: Scribner, Part 5, Chapter 5, p. 583:
  A number of Cook County vice cops scattered through the room with notebooks and tape machines, sucking up every arraignable word.