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Entry 2 senses Webster, 1913

Arraignment

/ẽr-ān'-mənt/ · Ar·raign·ment · IPA /əˈɹeɪnmənt/
01 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…
  1. 1.
    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.(Law)
  2. 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.