Arraign
English 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.
- Law To call (an accused person) before a court to answer the charge made against him or her by indictment, information, or complaint.
- To call to account; accuse: "Johnson arraigned the modern politics of this country as entirely devoid of all principle” ( James Boswell).