Indict

[In*dict·]

If you accuse someone of committing an offense, you indict them. A book that indicts the entire education system might lay out all the reasons that schools are failing kids.

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To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.

Verb
accuse formally of a crime


v. t.
To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.

v. t.
To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.

v. t.
To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find 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.


Indict

In*dict" , v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indicted ; p. pr. & vb. n. Indicting.] [OE. enditen. See Indite.] 1. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. [Obs.] 2. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce. [Obs.]
I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year.
3. (Law) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find 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.

To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.

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Usage Examples

To state the facts frankly is not to despair the future nor indict the past. The prudent heir takes careful inventory of his legacies and gives a faithful accounting to those whom he owes an obligation of trust.

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