arraign
verb (used with object)
to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment, a formal charge for which it has been ascertained that there is enough evidence to warrant trial.
has arraigned
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present perfectof arraign (3rd person singular).present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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There is more than one profound thinker of our own period who has arraigned her influence—Strindberg and Nietzsche among them.
From The Business of Being a Woman by Ida M. Tarbell
Archestratides has arraigned him sufficiently about other matters, for he declared the laws and brought evidence; but what he omitted, I will go over point by point with you.
From The Orations of Lysias by Lysias
The Senator from Indiana has arraigned me upon an old indictment for having written a certain letter in 1861.
From History of the Thirty-Ninth Congress of the United States by William Horatio Barnes
