Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Arraign

Arraign ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[Old English arainen, arenen, Old French aragnier, aranier, araisnier, French arraisonner, from Late Latin arrationare to address to call before court; Latin ad + ratio reason, reasoning, Late Latin 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

Arraign , noun

Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns. — Blackstone. Macaulay

Arraign ({not transcribed}) , transitive verb

[From Old French aramier, from Late Latin adhramire.]

(Old Eng. Law) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.