Indicting

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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}.]
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     1. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. [Obs.]
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     2. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or
        announce. [Obs.]
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              I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year.
                                                    --Evelyn.
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     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}.
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