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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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... answer to which would embody the chief of all his claims, namely, the claim that he is divine. It was of supreme importance that this claim should be made at exactly this time. He knew that the rulers had been unable to find a charge on which to arraign him before either the ecclesiastical or the civil court. He realized that they would dare to make no other attempt in public, but he clearly foresaw the fact that, through the treachery of Judas, he would be arrested and, before both these courts, ...

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