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indite

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in⋅dite

  [in-dahyt]
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–verb (used with object), -dit⋅ed, -dit⋅ing.
1. to compose or write, as a poem.
2. to treat in a literary composition.
3. Obsolete. to dictate.
4. Obsolete. to prescribe.
Origin:
1325–75; ME enditen < OF enditer < VL *indictāre, deriv. of L indīctus ptp. of indīcere to announce, proclaim. See in- 2 , dictum

Related forms:
in⋅dite⋅ment, noun
in⋅dit⋅er, noun
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in·dite   (ĭn-dīt')   
tr.v.   in·dit·ed, in·dit·ing, in·dites

  1. To write; compose.

  2. To set down in writing.

  3. Obsolete To dictate.


[Middle English enditen, from Old French enditer, from Vulgar Latin *indictāre : Latin in-, toward; see in-2 + Latin dictāre, to compose, to say habitually, frequentative of dīcere, to say; see deik- in Indo-European roots.]
in·dite'ment n., in·dit'er n.
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