Arraign
- v. t. To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.
- v. t. 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. t. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
- n. Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.
The word meanings were obtained from OPTED(The Online Plain Text English Dictionary), which is based on “The Project Gutenberg Etext of Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary” which is in turn based on the 1913 US Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary (See Project Gutenburg), as a text file.