Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- An obsolete form of
indite . - noun One of the processes on the inner or mesial border of the leaf-like abdominal appendages of the branchiopod Crustacea.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb See
indite .
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun One of the
mouthparts of aspider or otherarachnids , specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to thelabium . - verb Obsolete form of
indite .
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Examples
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His L. did endite the letters himselfe, but his pleasure was, they should be turned into Latine by another: and so to be sent (as indeed they were) in the latine tongue vnto the Duke.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation 2003
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Then she called her father Sir Bernard and her brother Sir Tirre, and heartily she prayed her father that her brother might write a letter like as she did endite it, and so her father granted her.
Stories of King Arthur and His Knights Retold from Malory's "Morte dArthur" U. Waldo Cutler
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In Latin and French hath many soueraine wittes had great delyte to endite, and have many noble thinges fulfilde, but certes there ben some that speaken their poisye in French, of which speche the Frenchmen have as good a fantasye as we have in hearying of Frenchmens Englishe.
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* "In Latin and French hath many soueraine wittes had great delyte to endite, and have many noble thinges fulfilde, but certes there ben some that speaken their poisye in French, of which speche the Frenchmen have as good a fantasye as w ave in hearying of Frenchmen's Englishe."
The Sketch-Book of Geoffrey Crayon Washington Irving 1821
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Yet in my hart I then both speake and write, the wonder that my wit cannot endite.
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L. did endite the letters himselfe, but his pleasure was, they should be turned into Latine by another: and so to be sent (as indeed they were) in the latine tongue vnto the Duke.
The Principal Navigations, Voyages, Traffiques and Discoveries of the English Nation — Volume 07 England's Naval Exploits Against Spain Richard Hakluyt 1584
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+ Oh I would I had hym here, the which did it endite.
Ralph Roister Doister Nicholas Udall 1530
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How fewe men shal you nowe fynd, whiche at one time be able to endite two epistles to so manye notaries, that the sẽtence in euerye one do agree, and that there shoulde happen no inconueniente speache.
The Education of Children Desiderius Erasmus 1502
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17 In Latin and French hath many soueraine wittes had great delyte to endite, and have many noble thinges fulfilde, but certes there ben some that speaken their poisye in French, of which speche the Frenchmen have as good
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1.18.17: Wo worth the time, and place, where I so could endite.
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