indite
    v 1: produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote
         four novels" [syn: write, compose, pen, indite]

Indite \In*dite"\, v. i.
   To compose; to write, as a poem.
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         Wounded I sing, tormented I indite.      --Herbert.
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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. 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.]
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   1. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to
      prompt.
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            My heart is inditing a good matter.   --Ps. xlv. 1.
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            Could a common grief have indited such expressions?
                                                  --South.
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            Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites.
                                                  --Pope.
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   2. To invite or ask. [Obs.]
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            She will indite him to some supper.   --Shak.
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   3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.] --Spenser.
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