Crossword clues for arraign
arraign
- Bring before a court
- Haul into court
- Bring charges against
- Formally accuse
- Call before a court
- Call before the court
- Bring to court for a plea
- Bring before a judge
- Legally accuse
- Force to answer charges
- File charges against
- Call before a judge
- Bring into court
- Bring before a judge to answer charges
- Ask for a plea from
- Accuse in a courtly way
- Call up to answer charges
- Call into court
- Charge in court
- Accuse formally
- Bring up on charges
- Bring a person to court
- Maybe between 1820 and 1830 reportedly put on trial
- Complain about a period of rule audibly
- Complain about foreigners essentially occupying a Scottish island
- Call to account US soldier over in Scottish isle
- Call before a court to answer an indictment
- Accuse of a wrong
- A rule cited to make an accusation
- Put on trial
- Publicly accuse
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Arraign \Ar*raign"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arraigned; p. pr. & vb. n. Arraigning.] [OE. arainen, arenen, OF. aragnier, aranier, araisnier, F. arraisonner, fr. LL. arrationare to address to call before court; L. ad + ratio reason, reasoning, LL. cause, judgment. See Reason.]
(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.
--Blackstone.-
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.
Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.
--Blackstone.
Macaulay.
Arraign \Ar*raign"\, v. t. [From OF. aramier, fr. LL. adhramire.] (Old Eng. Law) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., araynen, "to call to account," from Old French araisnier "speak to, address; accuse (in a law court)," from Vulgar Latin *arrationare, from Latin adrationare, from ad- "to" (see ad-) + *rationare, from ratio "argumentation, reckoning, calculation" (see ratio). Sense of "to call up on a criminal charge" is c.1400. The excrescent -g- is a 16c. overcorrection based on reign, etc. Related: Arraigned; arraigning.
Wiktionary
n. arraignment vb. 1 To officially charge someone in a court of law. 2 To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
WordNet
v. call before a court to answer an indictment
accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy
Usage examples of "arraign".
All these were arraigned, convicted, and condemned for high treason, in adhering and promising aid to Perkin.
All this afternoon he was drifting in thought, arraigning his past life, excusing it, condemning it, and trying to forecast its future.
As those heretics were, for the most part, averse to the pleasures of sense, they morosely arraigned the polygamy of the patriarchs, the gallantries of David, and the seraglio of Solomon.
Shortly afterward he was arraigned on the same charges before the Comitia of the Curies in the Peteline Grove.
I want him taken and questioned and Mauger de Cotaine arraigned for the villain he is.
They were instituted to defend the oppressed, to pardon offences, to arraign the enemies of the people, and, when they judged it necessary, to stop, by a single word, the whole machine of government.
And so it wuz arraigned, for I felt that I wuz not the one to come between pardners, no indeed.
This reflection naturally produced a dispute on the advantages and defects of the Roman government, which was severely arraigned by the apostate, and defended by Priscus in a prolix and feeble declamation.
There is cause to arraign the bankrupt on a charge of wilful bankruptcy.
It was impossible to execute this spiritual censure, if the Christian pontiff, who punished the obscure sins of the multitude, respected the conspicuous vices and destructive crimes of the magistrate: but it was impossible to arraign the conduct of the magistrate, without controlling the administration of civil government.
With this ill-kempt sansculotte giant in front of him, he almost felt as if he were already arraigned before that awful, merciless tribunal, to which he had dragged so many innocent victims.
Tobias is arraigned on a charge of violation of the Sullivan law, which is a law against carrying rods, and the courtroom is packed with citizens eager to see a character desperate enough to lug twelve rods, and among these citizens are many dolls, pulling and hauling for position, and some of these dolls are by no means crows.
Trimnel, bishop of Norwich, expatiated on the insolence of Sacheverel, who had arraigned archbishop Grindal, one of the eminent reformers, as a perfidious prelate, for having favoured and tolerated the discipline of Geneva.
Francian authorities that Professor Lukan has been arraigned on two counts: sedition and heresy.
Professor Norton was arraigned in Maricopa County Superior Court, charged with first-degree murder in the bludgeon slaying of his estranged wife.