1. (Law)
Defn: To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint. Blackstone.
2. 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. Dryden. It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world. I. Taylor.
Syn.
— To accuse; impeach; charge; censure; criminate; indict; denounce.
See Accuse.
ARRAIGN
Ar*raign", n.
Defn: Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns. Blackstone.
Macaulay.
ARRAIGN
Ar*raign", v. t. Etym: [From OF. aramier, fr. LL. adhramire.] (Old
Eng. Law)
Defn: To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.
ARRAIGNER
Ar*raign"er, n.
Defn: One who arraigns. Coleridge.