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indict
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indict \In*dict"\ ([i^]n*d[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indicted ([i^]n*d[imac]t"[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. Indicting.] [OE. enditen. See Indite.]
To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. [Obs.]
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To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce. [Obs.]
I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year.
--Evelyn. (Law) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to bring an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
c.1300, from Anglo-French enditer "accuse, indict" (late 13c.), Old French enditer "to dictate or inform," from Late Latin *indictare "to declare, proclaim in writing," from Latin in- "in" (see in- (2)) + dictare "to say, compose in words" (see dictate). Retained its French pronunciation even after the spelling was re-Latinized c.1600. In classical Latin, indictus meant "not said, unsaid." Related: Indictable; indicted; indicting.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To accuse of wrongdoing; charge. 2 (context legal English) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
WordNet
v. accuse formally of a crime
Usage examples of "indict".
The grand jury subsequently indicted, and the report running tonight was on how the men defrauded the public by trying to blame the attack on antiabortion sympathizers and using a volatile issue for their own gain.
Agnes Williamson, residing at Samuelston, Haddingtonshire, was indicted for witchcraft.
John De Puyster Hepplewhite to lie on he is thrown into prison, indicted by a grand jury, and tried for felony!
Just because this poor man--hungry, thirsty and weary--happened to select a bed belonging to John De Puyster Hepplewhite to lie on he is thrown into prison, indicted by a grand jury, and tried for felony!
Kallet went on to indict the purveyors of ground meat for their rampant use of preservative chemicals, such as sodium sulfite, citing a study that found sulfite in seventy-one of the seventy-six hamburgers sampled.
Vice-President, Spiro Agnew, was indicted in Maryland for receiving bribes from Maryland contractors in return for political favors, and resigned from the vice-presidency in October 1973.
French Cleaners and Dyers, and ten associates of the Oakland Sugar House Gang, now being called Purple Gangsters by the local press, were indicted and held for trial on charges of extortion.
Indicting crooked builders too soon after Hurricane Andrew might have scared off many of the thieves and con men masquerading as legitimate contractors who stampeded Florida to cash in on the storm.
Felix in Caesarea that the Jewish high priest and his colleagues indicted the defendant on three charges.
Nevertheless, if Washington could do so--or could convince a friendly government to indict Saddam and other Iraqi leaders for crimes against their nationals--this would have a salutory effect on American efforts to maintain the embargo.
Most recently he was indicted by the feds on multiple counts of bank fraud and money laundering.
No comment on how high it went, but judges, plural, were sure to be indicted.
A federal grand jury has indicted seven men on an array of charges under the Racketeer Influenced and Corrupt Organizations statutes, including ten counts of murder, two counts of solicitation to capital murder, seven counts of manslaughter, five counts of conspiracy to terrorism, seventeen counts of obstructing justice, twenty-two counts of weapons violations, and sixteen counts of endangering the public health.
After a magisterial investigation lasting two months, which failed to shed any new light on the more mysterious elements in the case, Fenayrou, his wife and brother were indicted on August 19 before the Assize Court for the Seine-et-Oise Department, sitting at Versailles.
This has given rise to speculations that the weapons involved may have been biological, speculation fueled by the fact that one of the indicted men, Christopher Vincent DelCorvo, was until recently employed by a privately owned biotechnology company, Verico, of Elizabeth, New Jersey.