INDICT

v.

3 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. [Obs.]

2.
v.

To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce. [Obs.] I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year. Evelyn.

3.
v.

To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find 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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