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s, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law.

The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title. Many of the changes, by a great misnomer, called parliamentary "reforms". Burke. The word "synonym" is fact a misnomer. Whatel

y; -- sometimes applied to bailiffs, constables, etc. Thackeray. With unabated ardor the vindictive man of law and his myrmidons pressed forward. W. H. Ainsworth.

made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false.

elayed, or barred. In criminal practice, the plea is the defendant's formal answer to the indictment or information presented against him.

ege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty. Kent.

The act of courting the favor of the people. [Obs.] "Indicted . . . for popularity and ambition." Holland.

of judicature, a corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance, or indictment.

a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment…

ous or medical advisers. (b) A communication which does not expose the party making it to indictment for libel, -- such as those made by persons communicating confidentially with a government, persons consulted confidentially as to the character of servants, etc. -- Privileged debts (Law), those to which a preference…

One who, when indicted for crime, confessed it, and accused others, his accomplices, in order to obtain pardon; a state's evidence.

tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information.

To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment. Blackstone.

Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge. If thy revengeful heart can not forgive. Shak. May my hands . . . Never brandish more rebvengeful steel. Shak.

by a recruit, previous to being sworn in, to procure his release from service. (c) (Law) Vindictive or exemplary damages; damages beyond a full compensation for the actual injury done. Burrill. Greenleaf. -- Smart ticket, a certificate given to wounded seamen, entitling them to smart money. [Eng.] Brande & C.…

or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical. Blackstone.

To come to; to reach; to attain to. The god, vindictive, doomed them never more-Ah, men unblessed! -- to touch their natal shore. Pope.

, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it. And save the expense of long litigious laws, Where suits are traversed, and so little won That he who conquers is but last undone. Dryden. To traverse a yard (Naut.), to brace it fore and aft…

Vindictive; retributive; revengeful. "Vengeful ire." Milton. -- Venge"ful*ly, adv.

A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.