arraignment, arraignement, arreignment (g silent)

[Eng. arraign; -ment.] A. Ordinary Language: I. The act of arraigning, accusing, complaining of, or finding fault with the state of being so arraigned. [B.] 1. In the same sense as B. (q.v.). "But yet in Layer's case, A. D. 1722,. the prisoner stood at the bar in chains during the time of his arraignment."-Black stone: Comment., bk. iv., ch. 25. 2. In a more general sense. "Wrathful at such arraignment foul, Dark lowered the clansman's sable scowl"