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v. Law To call (an accused person) before a court to answer the charge made against him or her by indictment, information, or complaint.

v. To call to account; accuse: "Johnson arraigned the modern politics of this country as entirely devoid of all principle” ( James Boswell).

v. To officially charge someone in a court of law.

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

v. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.

n. Arraignment.

v. To appeal to; to demand.

In law, to call to or set at the bar of a court, in order to plead guilty or not guilty to the matter charged in an indictment or information.

Hence To call in question for faults, before any tribunal; call before the bar of reason or of taste; accuse or charge in general.

Synonyms Accuse, Charge, Indict. See accuse.

n. Arraignment: as, the clerk of the arraigns. Blackstone.

In old law, to appeal to; claim; demand: in the phrase to arraign an assize, to demand, and hence to institute or prepare, a trial or an action.

v. call before a court to answer an indictment

v. accuse of a wrong or an inadequacy

"To "arraign" was to summon ad rationes to the pleadings."

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