0 to formally accuse someone in a law court of a particular crime and ask that person to say if they are guilty or not:
He was arraigned on charges of aiding and abetting terrorists.
1 to formally accuse someone of a particular crime in a court of law and to ask the accused to state guilt or innocence:
The obvious to us all is that where an inhuman crime has been committed, there is a criminal to be arraigned.
We welcome wholeheartedly the release of any political prisoner who is held in detention without the prospect of being properly arraigned and tried.
And it is upon this ground that we are to be arraigned!
He is the man who can be arraigned, and who should be arraigned.
I was arraigned not to explain or to testify about some political issue but was on trial for my political and personal life.
That woman is arraigned and charged with the offence of receiving stolen property or of theft.
The same class of men were arraigned before a single magistrate.
He arraigned the whole of us on this bench in somewhat strong language.