What's the difference between arraign and arraignment?

Arraign


Definition:

  • (v. t.) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.
  • (v. t.) To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
  • (n.) Arraignment; as, the clerk of the arraigns.
  • (v. t.) To appeal to; to demand; as, to arraign an assize of novel disseizin.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here I am president of the nation, I was voted in by the whole nation, why should I then accept an arraignment, which is by a few people?
  • (2) If Mladic complies with the schedule, his arraignment on Friday could bring him into the same court building as his superior during the Bosnian war, Radovan Karadzic.
  • (3) Shahzad was to have appeared in court today on terrorism charges but the hearing was delayed after the authorities said he waived his right to an early arraignment.
  • (4) That move – a prelude to an investigation of an investigation on the fringes of the commissions – was the latest meandering for a military trial that has yet to get under way two years since the defendants were arraigned.
  • (5) Chuck D's sideman in Public Enemy was arrested for traffic violations, unlicensed operation of a vehicle and unlawful possession of marijuana, but was released with orders to appear for arraignment.
  • (6) From April 1969 to March 1971, 535 juvenile offenders were arraigned before a juvenile court in Benin City, Nigeria.
  • (7) "He lied to me and took my son to his death," she said outside the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague, where Mladic was arraigned on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
  • (8) I was reminded of another recent drama, Vivienne Franzmann's The Witness , which arraigned its photographer hero for achieving fame at the expense of other people's misery.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dominique Strauss-Kahn appears in Manhattan criminal court for his arraignment in May 2011.
  • (10) The suspects, arraigned at a four-hour closed hearing on Monday, were accused of “having helped the perpetrator in connection with the shooting attacks”, Copenhagen police said.
  • (11) The Russian corruption whistleblower and opposition leader, who will be formally arraigned this Wednesday for allegedly embezzling half a million dollars from a state-owned timber company in 2009, is in a peculiar bind.
  • (12) Tsochadzopoulos, the most senior official yet to be arraigned in connection with corruption, stands accused of funnelling the cash, initially deposited in a Swiss bank account, via offshore companies to buy two properties in Athens, including a luxury home on the capital's most expensive boulevard.
  • (13) At a 24 February arraignment, Ammon plans to plead not guilty, the attorney added.
  • (14) A third military judge, Colonel James Pohl, defied Obama's order by scheduling an arraignment for Nashiri, saying that a delay would not be "in the interest of justice".
  • (15) "People's courts" will be convened to arraign local commanders.
  • (16) Once arraigned in juvenile court on the C & P, the average case took almost 1.5 years to reach a disposition.
  • (17) An earlier version referred to forces arraigned, rather than ranged, against Gordon Brown.
  • (18) His hands in cuffs, Castro bowed his head and remained silent during his arraignment at Cleveland municipal court.
  • (19) Now that the grand jury has also found probable cause to charge the aforementioned officers based upon the evidence these officers who are presumed innocent until proven guilty, are now scheduled to be arraigned on July 2,” Mosby said.
  • (20) Majors is scheduled for arraignment in district court on Wednesday.

Arraignment


Definition:

  • (n.) 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.
  • (n.) A calling to an account to faults; accusation.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Here I am president of the nation, I was voted in by the whole nation, why should I then accept an arraignment, which is by a few people?
  • (2) If Mladic complies with the schedule, his arraignment on Friday could bring him into the same court building as his superior during the Bosnian war, Radovan Karadzic.
  • (3) Shahzad was to have appeared in court today on terrorism charges but the hearing was delayed after the authorities said he waived his right to an early arraignment.
  • (4) That move – a prelude to an investigation of an investigation on the fringes of the commissions – was the latest meandering for a military trial that has yet to get under way two years since the defendants were arraigned.
  • (5) Chuck D's sideman in Public Enemy was arrested for traffic violations, unlicensed operation of a vehicle and unlawful possession of marijuana, but was released with orders to appear for arraignment.
  • (6) From April 1969 to March 1971, 535 juvenile offenders were arraigned before a juvenile court in Benin City, Nigeria.
  • (7) "He lied to me and took my son to his death," she said outside the international criminal tribunal for the former Yugoslavia at The Hague, where Mladic was arraigned on charges of genocide and crimes against humanity.
  • (8) I was reminded of another recent drama, Vivienne Franzmann's The Witness , which arraigned its photographer hero for achieving fame at the expense of other people's misery.
  • (9) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Dominique Strauss-Kahn appears in Manhattan criminal court for his arraignment in May 2011.
  • (10) The suspects, arraigned at a four-hour closed hearing on Monday, were accused of “having helped the perpetrator in connection with the shooting attacks”, Copenhagen police said.
  • (11) The Russian corruption whistleblower and opposition leader, who will be formally arraigned this Wednesday for allegedly embezzling half a million dollars from a state-owned timber company in 2009, is in a peculiar bind.
  • (12) Tsochadzopoulos, the most senior official yet to be arraigned in connection with corruption, stands accused of funnelling the cash, initially deposited in a Swiss bank account, via offshore companies to buy two properties in Athens, including a luxury home on the capital's most expensive boulevard.
  • (13) At a 24 February arraignment, Ammon plans to plead not guilty, the attorney added.
  • (14) A third military judge, Colonel James Pohl, defied Obama's order by scheduling an arraignment for Nashiri, saying that a delay would not be "in the interest of justice".
  • (15) "People's courts" will be convened to arraign local commanders.
  • (16) Once arraigned in juvenile court on the C & P, the average case took almost 1.5 years to reach a disposition.
  • (17) An earlier version referred to forces arraigned, rather than ranged, against Gordon Brown.
  • (18) His hands in cuffs, Castro bowed his head and remained silent during his arraignment at Cleveland municipal court.
  • (19) Now that the grand jury has also found probable cause to charge the aforementioned officers based upon the evidence these officers who are presumed innocent until proven guilty, are now scheduled to be arraigned on July 2,” Mosby said.
  • (20) Majors is scheduled for arraignment in district court on Wednesday.

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