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Compose, as a poem
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indite
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Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
Word definitions in Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 14c., "put down in writing," from Old French enditer , from Vulgar Latin *indictare , from Latin in- "in, into, on, upon" (see in- (2)) + dictare âto declareâ (see dictate ). The same word as indict but retaining a French form. Related: Indited ...
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Word definitions in The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indite \In*dite"\, v. i. To compose; to write, as a poem. Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. --Herbert.
WordNet
Word definitions in WordNet
v. produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" [syn: write , compose , pen ]
Wiktionary
Word definitions in Wiktionary
n. (context mineralogy English) An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral. vb. 1 (context transitive English) To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe 2 (context transitive English) To write, especially a literary or artistic ...
Usage examples of indite.
But the truthful historian of the capabilities of crabs, the duty of one who stands sponsor to some of the species and who has the hardihood to indite some of the manifestations of their intelligence, wit, and craft, must discard the prejudices of his race, abandon all flattering sense of superiority, forbear the smiles of patronage, and contemplate them from the standpoint of fellowship and sympathy.
He coulde songes make, and well indite, Joust, and eke dance, and well pourtray and write.
And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders formally indite his circulars?
In short, the prisoner at the bar is indited for sorcery and witchcraft acted upon the bodyes of the afflicted.
Not that the gift of decyphering written characters --a gift among the commonalty of that day considered little less cabalistical than the art of inditing --could, in strict justice, have been laid to the charge of either disciple of the sea.
Heralds will conduct each to his place, which is marked by a silver plate indited in good round characters.
He paused to watch a Dugbo necromancer: a twisted old man squatting behind trays of misshapen bottles, jugs of salve, junction-stones to facilitate telepathy, love-sticks, sheafs of curses indited on red and green paper.
At last he alighted and seemed to concern himself with the matter indited on a fold of paper.
In a secret chamber he kept a number of curios and magical adjuncts, including a book of incantations, indited in illegible script, but which glowed dimly in the dark.
Garland, repaired to a certain coffee-house, and from that place indited and sent a letter to Miss Sally Brass, requesting her, in terms mysterious and brief, to favour an unknown friend who wished to consult her, with her company there, as speedily as possible.
None of them, I presume, had ever read a page of my inditing, or would have cared a fig the more for me, if they had read them all.