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indictive

indictive adjective: proclaimed or declared by authority.

Adjective

indictive

  1. (obsolete) proclaimed or declared by authority
    • The Funus Publicum , which we meet with so often , may be sometimes understood as the same with the Indictive Funeral , and sometimes only as a Species of it1696, Basil Kennett, Romae Antiquae Notitia: Or, the Antiquities of Rome
  2. (archaic) accusatory
    • fatally indictive, conscious of commanding powers, and yet whipped in the most public pillory, amid the derisive laughter and applause of the world[…]1880, Thomas Power O'Connor, Lord Beaconsfield: A Biography
    • Each sang his indictive narrative in turn1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

Origin of indictive

From Latin indictivus. See indict.

Words formed from indictive

  • indictively

Questions about indictive

What does indictive mean?
Indictive means proclaimed or declared by authority.
What part of speech is indictive?
Indictive is an adjective.

Words near indictive in the dictionary

  1. indicters
  2. indicting
  3. indicting a ham sandwich
  4. indiction
  5. indictions
  6. indictive
  7. indictment
  8. indictments
  9. indictor
  10. indictors
  11. indicts

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