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Indite   /ɪndˈaɪt/   Listen
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Indite  v. t.  (past & past part. indited; pres. part. inditing)  
1.
To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt. "My heart is inditing a good matter." "Could a common grief have indited such expressions?" "Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites."
2.
To invite or ask. (Obs.) "She will indite him to some supper."
3.
To indict; to accuse; to censure. (Obs.)


Indite  v. i.  To compose; to write, as a poem. "Wounded I sing, tormented I indite."





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"Indite" Quotes from Famous Books



... themes and assign the metre, the other to act as copyist and supervisor. We three cannot, however, definitely say that we won't write verses, for, if we come across any comparatively easy subject and metre, we too will indite a stanza if we feel so disposed. But you four will positively have to do so. If you agree to this, well, we can proceed with the society; but, if you don't fall in with my wishes, I ...
— Hung Lou Meng, Book II • Cao Xueqin
... beheld a lady receiving honor and dazzling by her glory the unaccustomed spirit)—"After this sonnet there appeared to me a marvellous vision, in which I saw things which made me resolve not to speak more of this blessed one until such time as I should be able to indite more worthily of her. And to attain to this, I study to the utmost of my power, as she truly knows. So that it shall be the pleasure of Him, by whom all things live, that my life continue for some years, I hope to say of her ...
— The Great Events by Famous Historians, Volume 07 • Various
... abound, who songs indite; Beware of them, and learn to judge them right: Where God builds up his Church and Word, hard by Satan is found ...
— The Hymns of Martin Luther • Martin Luther
... baking on the top of this kopje, as I sit with my back against a rock and indite these little records. It seems hard to imagine that early every morning muffled-up, shivering forms wait anxiously for King Sol to stick his dear, red, blushing face above yonder range of kopjes to warm us with his genial presence. Yesterday we had some of Plumer's men in our little camp. They ...
— A Yeoman's Letters - Third Edition • P. T. Ross
... the brother of the very ox you are eating? And what do you pick your teeth with, after devouring that fat goose? With a feather of the same fowl. And with what quill did the Secretary of the Society for the Suppression of Cruelty to Ganders formally indite his circulars? It is only within the last month or two that that society passed a resolution to patronize nothing ...
— Moby-Dick • Melville


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