Search the Dictionary

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.

One who arraigns. Coleridge.

The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.

To make ready to fight; to array. [Obs.] Darrain your battle, for they are at hand. Shak.

To point at by way, or for the purpose, of censure or commendation; to arraign. [Obs.] Appoint not heavenly disposition. Milton.

The place in court where prisoners are stationed for arraignment, trial, or sentence.

A lance or dart made of cane. [R.] Judgelike thou sitt'st, to praise or to arraign The flying skirmish of the darted cane. Dryden.

ng; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment.

Same as Darraign. [Obs.] Chaucer.

like; as, to expose the faults of a neighbor. You only expose the follies of men, without arraigning their vices. Dryden.

misbehavior in office; to cite before a tribunal for judgement of official misconduct; to arraign; as, to impeach a judge. See Impeachment.

A calling to account; arraignment; especially, of a public officer for maladministration. The consequence of Coriolanus' impeachment had like to have been fatal to their state. Swift.