20 November 2013

arraign

[uh-reyn]

verb (used with object)

1. to call or bring before a court to answer to an indictment. ‘he was arraigned’.
2. to accuse or charge in general; criticize adversely; censure.

Origin:
1275–1325; Middle English arainen < Anglo-French arainer, Old French araisnier, equivalent to a- a-5 + raisnier < Vulgar Latin *ratiōnāre to talk, reason; see ratio

Related forms
ar·raign·er, noun
un·ar·raigned, adjective

Today’s aphorism

Nothing haunts us like the things we don’t say.

– Mitch Albom

On this day

20 November 1900 – birth of Chester Gould, American creator of the cartoon strip, ‘Dick Tracy’. He drew the comic strip from 1931 to 1977. Died 11 May 1985.

20 November 1910 – death of Leo Tolstoy, Russian writer, (‘Anna Karenina‘, ‘War and Peace‘). Born 9 September 1828.

20 November 1947 – Princess Elizabeth, who is crowned Queen Elizabeth II in 1952, marries Phillip Mountbatten in Westminster Abbey.

20 November 1985 – Microsoft launches Windows 1.01, a graphical user interface for personal computers. The program required MS-DOS to operate.