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indited

indited is the simple past and past participle of indite.

Meaning of indite

Verb

indite (third-person singular simple present indites, present participle inditing, simple past and past participle indited)

  1. (transitive) To physically make (letters and words) on a writing surface; to inscribe.
  2. (transitive) To write (something, especially a literary or artistic work); to compose.
    • From a VVriter of Books, our Author is already dvvindled to a Preface-monger, and from Prefaces I am confident he may in a ſhort time be improved to endite Tickets for the Bear-Garden.1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery, London: [s.n.], →OCLC...
  3. To dictate (something); to prompt.
    • My heart is inditing a good matter.1611, The Holy Bible, […] (King James Version), London: […] Robert Barker, […], →OCLC, Psalms 45:1
  4. (obsolete) To ask or invite (someone).
    • She vvill endite him to ſome ſupper.c. 1591–1595 (date written), [William Shakespeare], […] Romeo and Iuliet. […] (Second Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Cuthbert Burby, […], published 1599, →OCLC, [Act II, scene iv], signature...
  5. (obsolete) To indict (someone); to accuse; to censure.
    • the wonder that my wit cannot endite1595, Edmunde Spenser [i.e., Edmund Spenser], “(please specify the sonnet number or title)”, in Amoretti and Epithalamion. […], London: […] [Peter Short] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC

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Questions about indited

What is indited the simple past and past participle of?
Indited is the simple past and past participle of indite.

Words near indited in the dictionary

  1. indistortable
  2. indistributable
  3. indisturbable
  4. indisturbance
  5. indite
  6. indited
  7. inditement
  8. inditements
  9. inditer
  10. inditers
  11. indites

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