| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | ar·raign |
| PRONUNCIATION: |   -r n |
| TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: ar·raigned, ar·raign·ing, ar·raigns
1. Law To call (an accused person) before a court to answer the charge made against him or her by indictment, information, or complaint. 2. To call to account; accuse: “Johnson arraigned the modern politics of this country as entirely devoid of all principle” (James Boswell). | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English arreinen, from Old French araisnier, from Vulgar Latin *adrati nre, to call to account : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin rati, ratin-, account; see reason. | | OTHER FORMS: | ar·raigner —NOUN
ar·raignment —NOUN
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| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition. Copyright © 2000 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
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