Inditing

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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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