Meanings
- not comparablelawCapable of being arraigned.
[…] 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.
1755, anonymous author, Serious Reflections on the Manifold Dangers Attending the Use of Copper Vessels, London: M. Cooper, page 321 more example
[…] 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;
1642, anonymous author, Reasons Why This Kingdome Ought to Adhere to the Parliament, London, page 11 - not comparablelawFor 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.
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A number of Cook County vice cops scattered through the room with notebooks and tape machines, sucking up every arraignable word.
1997, Don DeLillo, Underworld, New York: Scribner, Part 5, Chapter 5, p. 583
Origin
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