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arraign

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1. arraign - Noun

2. arraign - Verb

Meaning

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.

Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.

To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

Source: Webster's dictionary

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Who now shall accuse and arraign us? What man shall condemn and disown? Since Christ has said only the stainless Shall cast at his fellows a stone. Joaquin Miller

We cannot suffer a person by his affidavit to arraign the whole justice of the country and its administration. Charles Abbott, 1st Baron Tenterden

Consider a little how you treat the Court; the objection hath been solemnly taken in this Court, argued and adjudged by this Court, and now you come to arraign that judgment that was then given. John Pratt

Further, if police do not arraign suspect, the victim has right to be informed of the decision in writing. Source: Internet

Certain fixed phrases in the standard language are illatives, such as patraukti atsakomybėn ("to arraign"), dešinėn! Source: Internet

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