Arraign
(Ar*raign") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arraigned ; p. pr. & vb. n. Arraigning.] [OE. arainen, arenen,
OF. aragnier, aranier, araisnier, F. arraisonner, fr. LL. arrationare to address to call before court; L.
ad + ratio reason, reasoning, LL. cause, judgment. See Reason.]
1. (Law) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment
or complaint. Blackstone.
2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
They will not arraign you for want of knowledge.
Dryden.
It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.
I.
Taylor.
Syn. — To accuse; impeach; charge; censure; criminate; indict; denounce. See Accuse.
Arraign
(Ar*raign"), n. Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns. Blackstone. Macaulay.
Arraign
(Ar*raign") v. t. [From OF. aramier, fr. LL. adhramire.] (Old Eng. Law) To appeal to; to demand; as,
to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.
Arraigner
(Ar*raign"er) n. One who arraigns. Coleridge.
Arraignment
(Ar*raign"ment) n. [Cf. OF. arraynement, aresnement.]
1. (Law) The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner
before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint.
2. A calling to an account to faults; accusation.
In the sixth satire, which seems only an Arraignment of the whole sex, there is a latent admonition.
Dryden.
Arraiment
(Ar*rai"ment, Ar*ray"ment) n. [From Array, v. t.] Clothes; raiment. [Obs.]
Arrange
(Ar*range") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Arranged; p. pr. & vb. n. Arranging ] [OE. arayngen, OF.
arengier, F. arranger, fr. a (L. ad) + OF. rengier, rangier, F. ranger. See Range, v. t.]
1. To put in proper order; to dispose (persons, or parts) in the manner intended, or best suited for the
purpose; as, troops arranged for battle.
So [they] came to the market place, and there he arranged his men in the streets.
Berners.
[They] were beginning to arrange their hampers.
Boswell.
A mechanism previously arranged.
Paley.
2. To adjust or settle; to prepare; to determine; as, to arrange the preliminaries of an undertaking.
Syn. — Adjust; adapt; range; dispose; classify.
Arrangement
(Ar*range"ment) n. [Cf. F. arrangement.]
1. The act of arranging or putting in an orderly condition; the state of being arranged or put in order; disposition
in suitable form.
2. The manner or result of arranging; system of parts disposed in due order; regular and systematic classification; as,
arrangement of one's dress; the Linnæan arrangement of plants.
