Indite

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indite \In*dite"\ ([i^]n*d[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Indited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inditing}.] [OE. enditen to
     indite, indict, OF. enditer to indicate, show, dictate,
     write, inform, and endicter to accuse; both fr. LL. indictare
     to show, to accuse, fr. L. indicere to proclaim, announce;
     pref. in- in + dicere to say. The word was influenced also by


     L. indicare to indicate, and by dictare to dictate. See
     {Diction}, and cf. {Indict}, {Indicate}, {Dictate}.]
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     1. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to
        prompt.
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              My heart is inditing a good matter.   --Ps. xlv. 1.
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              Could a common grief have indited such expressions?
                                                    --South.
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              Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites.
                                                    --Pope.
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     2. To invite or ask. [Obs.]
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              She will indite him to some supper.   --Shak.
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     3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Indite \In*dite"\, v. i.
     To compose; to write, as a poem.
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           Wounded I sing, tormented I indite.      --Herbert.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  indite
       v : produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote
           four novels" [syn: {write}, {compose}, {pen}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  56 Moby Thesaurus words for "indite":
     assemble, author, build, cast, coauthor, collaborate, compose,
     compound, concoct, construct, create, dash off, devise,
     editorialize, elaborate, engross, erect, evolve, extrude,
     fabricate, fashion, form, formulate, frame, free-lance,
     fudge together, get up, ghost, ghostwrite, inscribe, knock off,
     knock out, make, make up, manufacture, mature, mold, novelize,
     pamphleteer, patch together, piece together, prefabricate, prepare,
     produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, scenarize,
     scribe, set up, shape, throw on paper, whomp up, write