Arraign vs Arbitrate - What's the difference?
arraign | arbitrate |
To officially charge someone in a court of law.
To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal.
* Dryden
* I. Taylor
To make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter
* Shakespeare
To submit (a dispute) to such judgment
(mathematics, rare) To assign an object an arbitrary value, or otherwise arbitrarily determine it
As verbs the difference between arraign and arbitrate
is that arraign is to officially charge someone in a court of law while arbitrate is to make a judgment (on a dispute) as an arbitrator or arbiter.As a noun arraign
is arraignment.arraign
English
Verb
(en verb)- They will not arraign you for want of knowledge.
- It is not arrogance, but timidity, of which the Christian body should now be arraigned by the world.
References
arbitrate
English
Verb
- to arbitrate a disputed case
- There shall your swords and lances arbitrate / The swelling difference of your settled hate.
- We wish to show f is continuous. Arbitrate epsilon greater than zero...