Crossword clues for indite
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Indite \In*dite"\, v. i. To compose; to write, as a poem.
Wounded I sing, tormented I indite.
--Herbert.
Indite \In*dite"\ ([i^]n*d[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indited; p. pr. & vb. n. Inditing.] [OE. enditen to indite, indict, OF. enditer to indicate, show, dictate, write, inform, and endicter to accuse; both fr. LL. indictare to show, to accuse, fr. L. indicere to proclaim, announce; pref. in- in + dicere to say. The word was influenced also by L. indicare to indicate, and by dictare to dictate. See Diction, and cf. Indict, Indicate, Dictate.]
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To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.
My heart is inditing a good matter.
--Ps. xlv. 1.Could a common grief have indited such expressions?
--South.Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites.
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To invite or ask. [Obs.]
She will indite him to some supper.
--Shak. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.]
--Spenser.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
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 work; to compose 3 To dictate; to prompt. 4 (context obsolete English) To invite or ask. 5 (context obsolete English) To indict; to accuse; to censure.
WordNet
Wikipedia
Indite is an extremely rare indium- iron sulfide mineral, found in Siberia. Its chemical formula is FeInS.
It occurs as replacement of cassiterite in hydrothermal deposits. It is associated with dzhalindite, cassiterite and quartz. It was first described in 1963 for an occurrence in the Dzhalinda tin deposit, Malyi Khingan Range, Khabarovskiy Kray, Far-Eastern Region, Russia.
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.