indite

[in·dite]

The verb indite, rarely used today, means "compose" or "put down in writing," like when you find a quiet place to sit down with your notebook and pen and indite a journal entry or a first draft of a short story.

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To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.

Verb
produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"


v. t.
To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.

v. t.
To invite or ask.

v. t.
To indict; to accuse; to censure.

v. i.
To compose; to write, as a poem.


Indite

In*dite" , 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.
Could a common grief have indited such expressions?
Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites.
2. To invite or ask. [Obs.]
She will indite him so supper.
3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.] Spenser.

Indite

In*dite", v. i. To compose; to write, as a poem.
Wounded I sing, tormented I indite.

To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.

To compose; to write, as a poem.

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