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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However in this quest for justice for Phoebe the state must indite everyone responsible for sadness in her life not just the accused bullies.
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When is the new AG going to indite old Norm for taking $75,000 under the table
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Their own website (www.dallascult.com) and their book (Chapter 3) indite cultish behaviors such as communal meals (like the Eucharist), Jewish feasts, frequent Bible studies, and the home schooling of the children.
Cult awareness workshop Saturday at Garland church | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009
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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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Got me, try the impeach Bush thing, or the force Rummy out, or maybe even indite Rove, but I mean really, just move on off of trying to indite Rove, if it was gonna happen, it would have happened.
Think Progress » MSNBC’s Shuster: ‘I Am Convinced Karl Rove Will Be Indicted’ 2006
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Investigator guy either needs to indite him or move on to something new, like class action law suits.
Think Progress » MSNBC’s Shuster: ‘I Am Convinced Karl Rove Will Be Indicted’ 2006
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Fitz has been methodical and if there is enough evidence to indite then indite he will.
Think Progress » Matthews on Rove Indictment: ‘It Could Be Today’ 2006
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I am not willing to indite the whole society, though I think Modern America's love affair with adolescence sends unfortunate signals to the more gullible among young males.
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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
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