arraignment

Founding-era definition · Webster's 1828 American Dictionary

ARRA'IGNMENT, noun 1. The act of arraigning; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an accusation, and to choose his triers. 2. Accusation. 3. A calling in question for faults.
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