Definition of "arraign"

arraign

/əˈɹeɪn/

verb
third-person singular simple present arraigns, present participle arraigning, simple past and past participle arraigned
1. To officially charge someone in a court of law.
  Quotations
  He will then be arraigned, at which point the specific charges will be unsealed.
  2023 March 30, Ben Protess, Jonah E. Bromwich, William K. Rashbaum, Kate Christobek, Nate Schweber, “Trump Is Indicted, Becoming First Ex-President to Face Criminal Charges”, in The New York Times‎
2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
  Quotations
  They will not dare to arraign you for want of knowledge.
  1697, Virgil, “(please specify the book number)”, in John Dryden, transl., The Works of Virgil: Containing His Pastorals, Georgics, and Æneis. […], London: […] Jacob Tonson, […]
  It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.
  1832, [Isaac Taylor], Saturday Evening. […], London: Holdsworth and Ball
noun
plural arraigns
1. Arraignment.
  Quotations
  the clerk of the arraigns
  1765–1769, William Blackstone, Commentaries on the Laws of England, (please specify |book=I to IV), Oxford, Oxfordshire: […] Clarendon Press
  The clerk of the arraigns stood up
  1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volumes (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans