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   Indite , 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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   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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   To invite or ask. [Obs.]
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   She will indite him to some supper.
   Shak.
   
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   To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.]
   Spenser.
   
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   Indite, v. i. To compose; to write, as a poem.
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   Wounded I sing, tormented I indite.
   Herbert.
   
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