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De - Pt| English Dictionary: Indict | by the DICT Development Group |
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| From WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006) [wn]: | |
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| From Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913) [web1913]: | |
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Indict \In*dict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indicted}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Indicting}.] [OE. enditen. See {Indite}.] 1. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. [Obs.] 2. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce. [Obs.] I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year. --Evelyn. 3. (Law) 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. | |
