arraign
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[edit]Etymology
[edit]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
[edit]- IPA(key): /əˈɹeɪn/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -eɪn
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.
- 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:
- They will not dare to arraign you for want of knowledge.
- 1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball, →OCLC:
- It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]charge someone in a court of law
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Noun
[edit]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:
- the clerk of the arraigns
- 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC:
- The clerk of the arraigns stood up
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