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endict

endict is the archaic form of indict.

Meaning of indict

Verb

indict (third-person singular simple present indicts, present participle indicting, simple past and past participle indicted)

  1. (transitive) To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
    • a book that indicts modern values
  2. (transitive) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
    • his former manager was indicted for fraud

Forms of endict

third-person singular presentendicts
present participleendicting
past participleendicted
pastendicted

Questions about endict

What is endict the archaic form of?
Endict is the archaic form of indict.

Words near endict in the dictionary

  1. endiannesses
  2. endichnial
  3. endichnion
  4. Endicott
  5. Endicotts
  6. endict
  7. endicted
  8. endicting
  9. endictment
  10. endictments
  11. endicts

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Adapted from Wiktionary: endict (page history and authors); indict (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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