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Indited

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.]

  1. 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.
    --Pope.

  2. To invite or ask. [Obs.]

    She will indite him to some supper.
    --Shak.

  3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.]
    --Spenser.

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vb. (en-past of: indite)

Usage examples of "indited".

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.