arraigned

American  

[uh-reynd] / əˈreɪnd /

adjective

1. Law. called or brought before a court to answer to an indictment.

   The case against all the arraigned men was dismissed after a jury ruled there was no proof of their involvement in the robbery.

2. accused or criticized; censured.

   In an earlier movie, the same actor gave a much arraigned performance as an aspiring folk musician.

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verb

1. the simple past tense and past participle of arraign.

Other Word Forms

• unarraigned
  adjective

Etymology

Origin of arraigned

First recorded in 1580–90; arraign + -ed ² for the adjective senses; arraign + -ed ¹ for the verb sense

Example Sentences

In one, an anonymously written feminist play called “Swetnam the Woman-Hater, Arraigned By Women,” the character standing in for Swetnam was named Misogynos.

From New York Times • Mar. 8, 2019

Arraigned in a Hartford, Conn., courtroom, Mr. Meyer pleaded not guilty to charges of transporting goods and wire fraud, and was released on an unsecured $250,000 bond after his arrest on Wednesday.

From New York Times • Aug. 15, 2013

July 26, 2013, 1:13 pm SAC Capital Is Arraigned on a Raft of Criminal Charges After years of winning criminal convictions against employees of SAC Capital Advisors, federal prosecutors on Friday confronted SAC itself.

From New York Times • Jul. 26, 2013

Arraigned before a court martial of three British officers, the Sheik Farhan refused to utter a word to the Court, kept repeating to himself passages from the Koran.

From Time Magazine Archive

Thomas Nabbes was also one who was a great Contributer to the English Stage, chiefly in the Reign of King Charles the First; His Comedies were the Brides, Covent-Garden, Totnam Court, and the Woman-hater Arraigned.

From The Lives of the Most Famous English Poets (1687) by Parker, William Riley