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Difference Between Indict and Indite

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Indict

(Law) To charge (a party) by indictment.

Indite

Indite is an extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral, found in Siberia. Its chemical formula is FeIn2S4.

Indict

To accuse of wrongdoing or criticize severely
"[He] managed to indict the country's smug, liberal establishment whose lip service throttled the struggle for civil rights" (Bob Spitz).

Indite

Write; compose
He indites the wondrous tale of Our Lord

Indict

To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.
A book that indicts modern values
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Indite

To write; compose.

Indict

(legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.
His former manager was indicted for fraud

Indite

To set down in writing.

Indict

To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.

Indite

(Obsolete) To dictate.
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Indict

To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year.

Indite

(transitive) To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe.

Indict

To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to bring an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.

Indite

(transitive) To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose.

Indict

Accuse formally of a crime

Indite

To dictate; to prompt.

Indite

(obsolete) To invite or ask.

Indite

(obsolete) To indict; to accuse; to censure.

Indite

(mineral) An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.

Indite

To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.
My heart is inditing a good matter.
Could a common grief have indited such expressions?
Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites.

Indite

To invite or ask.
She will indite him to some supper.

Indite

To indict; to accuse; to censure.

Indite

To compose; to write, as a poem.
Wounded I sing, tormented I indite.

Indite

Produce a literary work;
She composed a poem
He wrote four novels

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