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/ərˈeɪn/ Listen

noun

Arraign n. Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.

verb

Arraign v. t. (past & past part. arraigned; pres. part. arraigning)

(Law) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.

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." "It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world."

Synonyms: To accuse; impeach; charge; censure; criminate; indict; denounce. See Accuse.

Arraign v. t. (Old Eng. Law) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

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... to arraign the Christian Churches in connection with this disastrous outbreak. Unless they discharge the high task of the moral direction of men, in international as well as in personal conduct, they have no raison d'etre. Few of them to-day will plead that their function is merely ...

— The War and the Churches • Joseph McCabe

... guarantee, and which no power now on earth is competent to shake. It is not against the deluded, the timid, or the helpless of the South that we would make the indictment for political crime. It is the perfidious pro-slavery spirit in politics that we seek to arraign. ...

— Continental Monthly, Vol. II. July, 1862. No. 1. • Various

... and irremoveably laid. In future times, designing, ambitious and profligate men may start the idea that what has been may be, and in the desperate effort of factious opposition, even venture to arraign the temper and health of mind, though it shows its perfect state, and the wise measures of Government should put such daring insult ...

— Memoirs of the Court and Cabinets of George the Third, Volume 2 (of 2) - From the Original Family Documents • The Duke of Buckingham

... subjected to misfortune or suffering, that there are thousands around them in a far, far worse condition, deprived of all that can make life of value, without hope in this world or the next, and men they would never dare to arraign the dispensation of Providence, by which they receive the infliction from which they suffer, and would feel that even thus they are blessed above their fellows. Poor Ada saw that Marianna still slept, and, fearful ...

— The Pirate of the Mediterranean - A Tale of the Sea • W.H.G. Kingston

... have curs'd my birth, indeed, I have Blasphem'd the Gods, with unbecoming passion, Arraign'd their Justice, and defy'd their pow'r, In bitterness, because they had deny'd Thee to support the weakness of my age. But now no more I'll rail and rave at fate, All its decrees are just, complaints are impious, Whate'er ...

— The Prince of Parthia - A Tragedy • Thomas Godfrey

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