arraignable

English

arraignable (not comparable)

(law) Capable of being arraigned.
- 1642, anonymous, Reasons Why This Kingdome Ought to Adhere to the Parliament, London, p. 11,
  […] 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,
  […] 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.
(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,
  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,
  A number of Cook County vice cops scattered through the room with notebooks and tape machines, sucking up every arraignable word.