indite Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. verb produce a literary work
    write; pen; compose.
    • She composed a poem
    • He wrote four novels

WordNet

In*dite" transitive verb
Etymology
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. indicere to proclaim, announce; pref. in- in + dicere to say. The word was influenced also by L. indicare to indicate, and by dictare to dictate. See Diction, and cf. Indict, Indicate, Dictate.
Wordforms
imperfect & past participle Indited; present participle & verbal noun Inditing
Definitions
  1. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.
    My heart is inditing a good matter. Ps. xlv. 1.
    Could a common grief have indited such expressions? South.
    Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites. Pope.
  2. To invite or ask. Obs.
    She will indite him so supper. Shak.
  3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. Obs. Spenser.
In*dite" intransitive verb
Definitions
  1. To compose; to write, as a poem.
    Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. Herbert.

Webster 1913