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Arraign vs Indict - What's the difference?

arraign | indict |

As verbs the difference between arraign and indict

is that arraign is to officially charge someone in a court of law while indict is to accuse of wrongdoing; charge.

As a noun arraign

is arraignment.

arraign

English

Verb

(en verb)
  • To officially charge someone in a court of law.
  • To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
  • * Dryden
    • They will not arraign you for want of knowledge.
  • * I. Taylor
    • It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • arraignment
    • the clerk of the arraigns
    (Blackstone)
    (Macaulay)

    References

    indict

    English

    Verb

    (en verb)
  • To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
    • a book that indicts modern values
  • (legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
    • his former manager was indicted for fraud

    See also

    * indite