standing trial

Verb

stand trial (third-person singular simple present stands trial, present participle standing trial, simple past and past participle stood trial)

1. To be put on trial in a court of law; go on trial.
   • Also observe that if there be six weeks between the bayl and issue joyning, the Defendant shall not remove his playnt by writ, but shall stand tryall below.1658 (indicated as 1657), The Practise of the Sheriffs Court London. […], [London]: [s.n.], →OCLC; reprinted London: Arthur Taylor, […], c. 1830, →OCLC, page 16
2. (idiomatic) To sustain the trial or examination of a cause; not to give up without trial.
   • Nay, it ſeems, / My Boy has charg'd thee vvith't, before his yeares / Could vvarrant his ability in Combate, / And ſo is fallen; Or thou, not daring ſtand / Tryall in ſuch a cauſe, by treachery / Haſt cut him off; And com'ſt to make thy peace: / Preſuming on my Poverty, vvith money.1637–1638 (date written), Richard Brome, “The Damoiselle, or The New Ordinary. A Comedy.”, in A[lexander] Brome, editor, Five New Playes, […], London: […] Humphrey Moseley, Richard Marriot, and...