Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To write; compose.
- transitive verb To set down in writing.
- transitive verb Obsolete To dictate.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To put into verbal form; compose; write.
- To conceive the form of; arrange for utterance or writing: only in the place cited.
- In the following passage, to invite: perhaps a misprint.
- To compose; write.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.
- transitive verb obsolete To invite or ask.
- transitive verb obsolete To indict; to accuse; to censure.
- intransitive verb To compose; to write, as a poem.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb transitive To
physically makeletters andwords on awriting surface ; toinscribe - verb transitive To
write , especially aliterary orartistic work ; tocompose - noun mineralogy An extremely rare
indium -iron sulfide mineral .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- verb produce a literary work
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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It forms only a very few rare minerals, such as indite, which is never abundant enough to be an ore of indium.
Indium 2008
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Dont let the white house door hit you in the ass on the way out. googbye to all the imbeciles in Bush administration. i pray and hope that the world court will indite these criminals for war crimes. looking back they have destroyed america and for which it stands for.freedom. they have destroyed americas economy and made her a third world country.
Yes They Did! Mall Throng Sang 'Hey Hey Goodbye' as Bush Flew Off! 2009
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Full many a line in heart of mine those fingers did indite:
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How then shall we burthen ourselves with concern for a thing which in His secret purpose is indite?
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When I saw that destruction had entered our dwellings and had homed with us and in the sea of deaths had drowned us, I summoned a writer and bade him indite these verses and instances and admonitions, the which I let grave, with rule and compass, on these doors and tablets and tombs.
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This letter to my lord and master I indite the king of my heart and my secret sprite
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Five lines on crystal page of breast did cruelly indite:
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Fantine barely knew how to read, and did not know how to write; in her childhood she had only been taught to sign her name; she had a public letter-writer indite an epistle to Tholomyes, then a second, then a third.
Les Miserables 2008
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He raised it and saw behind it a young man sitting upon a couch about a cubit above the ground; and he fair to the sight, a well shaped wight, with eloquence dight; his forehead was flower white, his cheek rosy bright, and a mole on his cheek breadth like an ambergris mite; even as the poet cloth indite: —
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The mood was upon him; he went on to indite, stroke by stroke, the promised terrible article on Chatelet and Mme. de Bargeton.
hernesheir commented on the word indite
"To all you ladies now at land,
We men, at sea, indite."
Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706), To All You Ladies Now at Land.
September 20, 2009
writer723 commented on the word indite
indite. what an inventive word meaning to write. a new word to my vocabulary. when i was a child my favorite book to read was the dictionary. i found it an adventure in learning. the words that opened into other words which created and gave meaning to my life. they told an intellectual as well as an emotional story.
April 19, 2011
MaryW commented on the word indite
Several examples are apparent misspellings of "indict." Maybe "indite" will one day be an accepted alternative, but for now, they are two different words.
October 31, 2015
MaryW commented on the word indite
"after a long search she was obliged to indite her epistle of love minus the edelweiss effusion."
"Lady Librarians," Pall Mall Gazette. quoted in Robert Crawford, "The Library in Poetry" in Alice Crawford, ed., The Meaning of the Library: A Cultural History (Princeton: Princeton Univ. Press, 2015), p. 192
October 31, 2015