Arraignable
adj ·Rare ·Advanced level
Definitions
- 1 Capable of being arraigned. not-comparable
"[…] if a Parliament be triable and arraignable before the King himselfe: Then hath the King an unlimited declarative power of Law above all Courts, in his own breast;"
- 2 For which a person is liable to be arraigned. not-comparable
"1881, T. W. Rolleston, letter dated 29 January, 1881, in Whitman and Rolleston: A Correspondence, Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1952, p. 22, Their words may not have been arraignable by law, (though in many cases they were so) but they were such as their hearers could give but one interpretation to."
Example
More examples"[…] if a Parliament be triable and arraignable before the King himselfe: Then hath the King an unlimited declarative power of Law above all Courts, in his own breast;"
Etymology
From arraign + -able.
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