Arraign

Webster's Dictionary of the English Language

·noun Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.

II. Arraign ·vt To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.

III. Arraign ·vt To appeal to; to Demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

IV. Arraign ·vt To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.