different between criminate vs arraign

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Latin crimino, criminatus.

Verb

criminate (third-person singular simple present criminates, present participle criminating, simple past and past participle criminated)

1. (transitive) To accuse (someone) of a crime; to incriminate. [from 17th c.]
   • 1791, Ann Radcliffe, The Romance of the Forest, Penguin 1999, p. 331:

     ‘I am now under confinement in this place for debt; but if you obtain […] a condition from the judge that what I reveal shall not criminate myself, I will make discoveries that shall confound that same Marquis […].’

2. (transitive, now rare) To rebuke or censure (someone). [from 17th c.]

Derived terms

Related terms

• crimination

Translations

Anagrams

• anticrime, antimeric, carminite, macrinite, metrician

Latin

Pronunciation

• (Classical) IPA^(key): /kri?.mi?na?.te/, [k?i?m??nä?t??]
• (Ecclesiastical) IPA^(key): /kri.mi?na.te/, [k?imi?n??t??]

Verb

cr?min?te

1. second-person plural present active imperative of cr?min?

English

Etymology

From Middle English arreinen, from Old French araisnier (“to address, to verify”) (whence modern French arraisonner (“to verify cargo, to arraign”)), from raison (“reason”).

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /???e?n/
• Rhymes: -e?n

Verb

arraign (third-person singular simple present arraigns, present participle arraigning, simple past and past participle arraigned)

1. To officially charge someone in a court of law.

2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.

   • They will not dare to arraign you for want of knowledge.

   • 1832, Isaac Taylor, Saturday Evening

     It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.

Derived terms

Translations

Noun

arraign (plural arraigns)

1. Arraignment.

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