3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Indict \In*dict"\ ([i^]n*d[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indicted} ([i^]n*d[imac]t"[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n. {Indicting}.] [OE. enditen. See {Indite}.] [1913 Webster] 1. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] 2. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce. [Obs.] [1913 Webster] I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster] 3. (Law) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to bring an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to {impeach}. [1913 Webster] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 18 Moby Thesaurus words for "indicted": accused, arraigned, blamed, charged, cited, denounced, impeached, implicated, impugned, in complicity, incriminated, inculpated, involved, reproached, tasked, taxed, under attack, under fire From Bouvier's Law Dictionary, Revised 6th Ed (1856) [bouvier]: INDICTED, practice. When a man is accused by a bill of indictment preferred by a grand jury, he is said to be indicted.
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