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Indite

Indite Meaning & Definition
Indite Definition And Meaning

What's The Definition Of Indite?

[v] produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels"

Synonyms | Synonyms for Indite: compose | pen | write

Related Terms | Find terms related to 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

See Also | adopt | annotate | author | cite | create verbally | dash off | draft | dramatise | dramatize | draw | fling off | footnote | knock off | lyric | outline | paragraph | poetise | poetize | profile | reference | rewrite | rough | script | spell | toss off | versify | write about | write copy | write of | write off | write on | write out | write up

Indite In Webster's Dictionary

\In*dite"\, 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}.] 1. 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. To invite or ask. [Obs.] She will indite him so supper. --Shak. 3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.] --Spenser.
\In*dite"\, v. i. To compose; to write, as a poem. Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. --Herbert.

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