INDITE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt. My heart is inditing a good matter. Ps. xlv. 1. Could a common grief have indited such expressions South. Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites. Pope.

2.
v.

To invite or ask. [Obs.] She will indite him so supper. Shak.

3.
v.

To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.] Spenser.

4.
v.

To compose; to write, as a poem. Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. Herbert.


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