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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Indite \In*dite"\ ([i^]n*d[imac]t"), verb (used with an object) [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 to some supper. --Shak.
3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.] --Spenser.
From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Indite \In*dite"\, verb (used without an object) To compose; to write, as a poem.
Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. --Herbert.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
indite
verb: produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote four novels" [syn: {write}, {compose}, {pen}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
56 Moby Thesaurus words for "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
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