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Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Indite

In·dite′ (ĭn·dīt′), 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.

In·dite′, v. i. To compose; to write, as a poem.

Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. Herbert.

Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Noah Porter, editor (Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913). Public domain. Text as transcribed by MICRA, Inc., from Project Gutenberg. Changed for Deep Dive Bible: Greek, which our source spelled in Latin letters, set in Greek letters; entries of one spelling merged into one article; Greek words our source left out (shown as “?”), read from the 1898 printing, from the same plates (the Library of Congress’s copy), where the place could be found with certainty.