Word Meanings - ARRAIGN - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: ARRAIGN

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. Syn. -- To accuse; impeach; charge; censure; criminate; indict; denounce. See Accuse. (more info) araisnier, F. arraisonner, fr. LL. arrationare to address to call before court; L. ad + ratio reason, reasoning, LL. cause, judgment.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of ARRAIGN)

• Accuse
• Charge
• incriminate
• impeach
• arraign
• tax
• taunt
• censure
• cite
• summon
• criminate
• Direct
• enjoin
• advise
• admonish
• inculpate
• entrust
• commit
• load
• accuse
• attack
• assault
• impute
• carry
• Criminate
• implicate
• Impeach
• indict
• Prosecute
• Follow
• pursue
• investigate
• conduct
• persevere
• carry on
• persist
• sue

Related words: (words related to ARRAIGN)

• ADMONISHER
  One who admonishes.
• DIRECT CURRENT
  A current flowing in one direction only; -- distinguished from alternating current. When steady and not pulsating a direct current is often called a continuous current. A direct induced current, or momentary current of the same direction as the
• INDICTEE
  A person indicted.
• PERSISTING
  Inclined to persist; tenacious of purpose; persistent. -- Per*sist"ing*ly, adv.
• DIRECTER
  One who directs; a director. Directer plane , the plane to which all right-lined elements in a warped surface are parallel.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• ASSAULTABLE
  Capable of being assaulted.
• FOLLOWING EDGE
  See ABOVE
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• TAUNTER
  One who taunts.
• INDICTER
  One who indicts.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• DIRECT ACTION
  See BELOW
• DIRECT NOMINATION
  The nomination or designation of candidates for public office by direct popular vote rather than through the action of a convention or body of elected nominating representatives or delegates. The term is applied both to the nomination of candidates
• DIRECTRIX
  1. A directress. Jer. Taylor. A line along which a point in another line moves, or which in any way governs the motion of the point and determines the position of the curve generated by it; the line along which the generatrix moves in generating
• IMPEACH
  To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. Note: When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when
• ARRAIGN
  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
• ADVISER
  One who advises.
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• SAFE-CONDUCT
  That which gives a safe, passage; either a convoy or guard to protect a person in an enemy's country or a foreign country, or a writing, pass, or warrant of security, given to a person to enable him to travel with safety. Shak.
• MISADVISE
  To give bad counsel to.
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• REACCUSE
  To accuse again. Cheyne.
• UNIMPLICATE
  Not implicated. "Unimplicate in folly." R. Browning.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.