arraign
English
Etymology
From Middle English arreinen, from Old French araisnier (“to address, to verify”) (whence modern French arraisonner (“to verify cargo, to arraign”)), from raison (“reason”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /əˈɹeɪn/
Audio (RP) (file) - Rhymes: -eɪn
Verb
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.
- He was arraigned in Washington, D.C., on the 25th of that month on charges of treason.
- To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
- 1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […], OCLC 403869432:
- They will not dare to arraign you for want of knowledge.
- 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, OCLC 2619891:
- It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.
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Derived terms
- arraignable
- arraigner
- arraignment
- rearraign
Translations
charge someone in a court of law
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Noun
arraign (plural arraigns)
- Arraignment.
- 1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press, OCLC 65350522:
- the clerk of the arraigns
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323:
- The clerk of the arraigns stood up
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