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Indict \In*dict"\ ([i^]n*d[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Indicted} ([i^]n*d[imac]t"[e^]d); p. pr. & vb. n.
{Indicting}.] [OE. enditen. See {Indite}.]
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1. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. [Obs.]
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2. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or
announce. [Obs.]
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I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year.
--Evelyn.
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3. (Law) 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}.
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