英和和英

語源

arraign +‎ -able

形容詞

arraignable (not comparable)

1. (law) Capable of being arraigned.
   • 1642, anonymous, Reasons Why This Kingdome Ought to Adhere to the Parliament, London, p. 11,^[1]

     […] 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;

   • 1755, anonymous, Serious Reflections on the Manifold Dangers Attending the Use of Copper Vessels, London: M. Cooper, p. 32,^[2]

     […] however I may be arraignable for any Error in my Judgment, I am perfectly free from aught of Sinister in my Intention with regard to the present Matter.

2. (law) For which a person is liable to be arraigned.
   • 1881, T. W. Rolleston, letter dated 29 January, 1881, in Whitman and Rolleston: A Correspondence, Dublin: Browne and Nolan, 1952, p. 22,^[3]

     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.

   • 1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, New York: Scribner, Part 5, Chapter 5, p. 583,^[4]

     A number of Cook County vice cops scattered through the room with notebooks and tape machines, sucking up every arraignable word.

派生語

• unarraignable

参考

• chargeable
• indictable