Arraign

Part of speech: noun (n.)

Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns. Blackstone. Macaulay.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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

2. 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. Dryden. It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world. I. Taylor.

Synonyms: accuse; impeach; charge; censure; criminate; indict; denounce. See Accuse.

Part of speech: verb (v.)

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