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ar·raign    Audio Help   (ə-rān')  Pronunciation Key 
tr.v.   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).


[Middle English arreinen, from Old French araisnier, from Vulgar Latin *adratiōnāre, to call to account : Latin ad-, ad- + Latin ratiō, ratiōn-, account; see reason.]

ar·raign'er n., ar·raign'ment n.
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