The Collaborative International Dictionary
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.
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vb. (present participle of indite English)
Usage examples of "inditing".
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.