Crossword clues for indicting
indicting
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.
Wiktionary
vb. (present participle of indict English)
Usage examples of "indicting".
One can only imagine Jefferson’s response when he learned that seven members of the grand jury favoured indicting his general, with nine opposed.
Hubbell was blunt in his response: “They think by indicting my wife and my friends that I will lie about the President and the First Lady.
Evil depends on where you are standing, pointing your indicting finger.
Sprawling, Jaynes, and Maurice Mast fashioned a strategy of first indicting the smaller fish, then pressuring them to cut a deal and squeal on the big one.