Indite
[in'dait]
Definition
(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.
Inputed by Angie
Synonyms and Synonymous
v. a. [1]. Compose, write, pen.[2]. Dictate.
Typist: Sanford
Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prompt, suggest, dictate, word, compose
ANT:Write, transcribe, {pen_(as_un_amanuensis)}
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Definition
v.t. to compose or write: (B.) to arrange for utterance or writing: (Shak.) to invite.—v.i. to compose.—ns. Indite′ment; Indit′er.
Typist: Stanley
Examples
- So I kissed his hand, and lay quiet, while he proceeded to indite a note to Biddy, with my love in it. Charles Dickens. Great Expectations.
- Edison seems on the whole to have been fairly comfortable and happy in Louisville, surrounding himself with books and experimental apparatus, and even inditing a treatise on electricity. Frank Lewis Dyer. Edison, His Life and Inventions.
- One or two such letters she actually indited, but she never sent them: shame and good sense forbade. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- I indited a letter to my master. Charles Dickens. Our Mutual Friend.
Checker: Myrna