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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. v. To write; compose.
  2. v. To set down in writing.
  3. v. Obsolete To dictate.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To put into verbal form; compose; write.
  2. To conceive the form of; arrange for utterance or writing: only in the place cited.
  3. In the following passage, to invite: perhaps a misprint.
  4. To compose; write.

Wiktionary

  1. v. To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe
  2. v. To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose
  3. n. An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.
  2. v. To invite or ask.
  3. v. To indict; to accuse; to censure.
  4. v. To compose; to write, as a poem.

WordNet 3.0

  1. v. produce a literary work

Etymologies

  1. 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.

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  • writer723 indite. what an inventive word meaning to write. a new word to my vocabulary. when i was a child my favorite book to read was the dictionary. i found it an adventure in learning. the words that opened into other words which created and gave meaning to my life. they told an intellectual as well as an emotional story. Apr 19, 2011

  • hernesheir "To all you ladies now at land,
    We men, at sea, indite."
    Charles Sackville, Earl of Dorset (1638-1706), To All You Ladies Now at Land. Sep 20, 2009

‘indite’ has been looked up 1497 times, loved by 1 person, added to 23 lists, commented on 2 times, and has a Scrabble score of 7.