- indictare
- To indict.
Ballentine's law dictionary. Anderson, W.S.. 1998.
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indict — [in dīt′] vt. [altered (infl. by L) < ME enditen, to write down, accuse < Anglo L indictare < LL * indictare < L in, against + dictare: see DICTATE] to charge with the commission of a crime; esp., to make a formal accusation against… … English World dictionary
Indite — In*dite ([i^]n*d[imac]t ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inditing}.] [OE. enditen to indite, indict, OF. enditer to indicate, show, dictate, write, inform, and endicter to accuse; both fr. LL. indictare to show, to accuse, fr. L … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Indited — Indite In*dite ([i^]n*d[imac]t ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inditing}.] [OE. enditen to indite, indict, OF. enditer to indicate, show, dictate, write, inform, and endicter to accuse; both fr. LL. indictare to show, to accuse … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
Inditing — Indite In*dite ([i^]n*d[imac]t ), v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inditing}.] [OE. enditen to indite, indict, OF. enditer to indicate, show, dictate, write, inform, and endicter to accuse; both fr. LL. indictare to show, to accuse … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
indite — transitive verb (indited; inditing) Etymology: Middle English enditen, from Anglo French enditer to write, compose, from Vulgar Latin *indictare, frequentative of Latin indicere to make known formally, proclaim, from in + dicere to say more at… … New Collegiate Dictionary
indite — inditement, n. inditer, n. /in duyt /, v.t., indited, inditing. 1. to compose or write, as a poem. 2. to treat in a literary composition. 3. Obs. to dictate. 4. Obs. to prescribe. [1325 75; ME enditen < OF enditer < VL *indictare, deriv. of L… … Universalium
indettare — in·det·tà·re v.tr. (io indétto) BU lett., istruire, ammaestrare sul da farsi; imbeccare {{line}} {{/line}} DATA: av. 1390. ETIMO: lat. *indĭctāre, comp. di in con valore raff. e dictāre dettare , cfr. fr. ant. enditier … Dizionario italiano
indict — in|dict [ınˈdaıt] v [I and T] law especially AmE [Date: 1300 1400; : Anglo French; Origin: enditer, from Old French, to write down , from Latin indicere to say publicly or officially , from dicere to say ; influenced by Medieval Latin indictare… … Dictionary of contemporary English
indicate — [17] Like index, indicate has its origins in the Latin stem *dik ‘point out’. In this case the base form was the verbal derivative dicāre ‘proclaim’ (ultimate ancestor also of English abdicate [16], dedicate [15] and predicate [16]), which with… … The Hutchinson dictionary of word origins
indict — (v.) c.1300, from Anglo Fr. enditer accuse, indict (late 13c.), O.Fr. enditer to dictate or inform, from L.L. *indictare to declare, proclaim in writing, from L. in in (see IN (Cf. in ) (2)) + dictare to say, compose in words (see DICTATE (Cf … Etymology dictionary
