Definitions

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb Simple past tense and past participle of arraign.

Etymologies

Sorry, no etymologies found.

Support

Help support Wordnik (and make this page ad-free) by adopting the word arraigned.

Examples

  • She hasn ` t been arraigned, meaning formally charged yet.

    CNN Transcript Apr 13, 2009 2009

  • By then Saddam and eleven others had been "arraigned" on television in improvised proceedings of dubious meaning, which backfired politically when Saddam visibly summoned his powers of command and began to dominate the show.

    Ziad for the Defense 2005

  • By then Saddam and eleven others had been "arraigned" on television in improvised proceedings of dubious meaning, which backfired politically when Saddam visibly summoned his powers of command and began to dominate the show.

    Ziad for the Defense 2005

  • Handing down the legal equivalent of a rap on the knuckles, Judge Teare said the public might see his compassion as "impossibly lenient", but explained he had been swung by the moral standing of those arraigned before him, as set out by counsel of the defence in mitigation.

    Hugh Muir's diary 2011

  • ISTANBUL — A Turkish court on Friday arraigned an al Qaeda suspect found with software designed to help shoot down surveillance drones in Afghanistan, according to state-run newswire Anadolu Ajansi.

    Turkey Arraigns al Qaeda Suspect Marc Champion 2010

  • The police arraigned him on a count of making a threat of terrorism.

    Julian Assange on '60 Minutes'; man arrested for Detroit terrorist threat; bath salts as drugs Melissa Bell 2011

  • They were arraigned upon Monday as well as a box was sent to a grand jury, which began reviewing justification upon Thursday, according to a orator for a Suffolk County district attorneys office.

    Ethical Democracy As Lived Practice: The Murder of Marcelo Lucero ... admin 2009

  • I was arraigned the very next morning and released on a personal.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

  • They were arraigned upon Monday as well as a box was sent to a grand jury, which began reviewing justification upon Thursday, according to a orator for a Suffolk County district attorneys office.

    Archive 2009-11-01 admin 2009

  • During the proceedings, two attorneys represented the accused, who were arraigned in two groups of four.

    Bail Denied for Six Bronx Hate-Crime Suspects Alison Fox 2010

Comments

Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.