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  • verb Third-person singular simple present indicative form of indite.

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Examples

  • Once again, the undersized demonic hellspawn Dale indites Liberals, and yet STILL, the demented lad has utterly NO TRUE understanding of what the Bibo Sez in Truth about Liberals: 1. Deuteronomy 15:14 - "Thou shalt furnish him liberally out of thy flock, a GOOD THING, Dale and out of thy floor, and out of thy winepress: of that wherewith the LORD thy God hath blessed thee thou shalt give unto him."

    TEXAS FAITH: How does a faith adapt without losing its meaning? | RELIGION Blog | dallasnews.com 2009

  • "Language has not the power to speak what love indites: the soul lies buried in the ink that writes."

    On Being Left Behind The Daily Growler 2006

  • It is true that he does finally incline to believe in the camp; and, being opposed, indites a pamphlet which he is about to read at the quarterly meeting of the local society when a stroke lays him low, and his last conscious thoughts are not of wife or child, but of the camp and that arrowhead there, which is now in the case at the local museum, together with the foot of a

    A Haunted House, and other short stories 2004

  • And now the “Government Chaplain” indites (Introduction, p. xxvii.) the following invidious remarks touching the travels of

    Personal Narrative of a Pilgrimage to Al-Madinah and Meccah 2003

  • Friends interchange words of friendship — Tai-yü feels dull on a windy and rainy evening, and indites verses on wind and rain.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • Friends interchange words of friendship — Tai-yü feels dull on a windy and rainy evening, and indites verses on wind and rain.

    Hung Lou Meng 2003

  • Saith he, "My heart indites, and my tongue professes."

    The Sermons of John Owen 1616-1683 1968

  • Tai-yü feels dull on a windy and rainy evening, and indites verses on wind and rain.

    Hung Lou Meng, Book II Or, the Dream of the Red Chamber, a Chinese Novel in Two Books Xueqin Cao

  • He no longer indites high-brow editorials, but sparkling scenarios, and, moreover, he has acquired the prettiest little movie wife imaginable and an adorable Doty Junior.

    Butchering Brains 1928

  • Page 312 heavy tresses, while she ponders for but a few seconds -- then, by a sudden start, she approaches her writing-stand, seizes a pen, and indites a few hasty lines to some trusty friend, upon the troubles that weigh so heavily upon her.

    Behind the scenes, 1907

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