Definitions for: Indict

[v] accuse formally of a crime

Webster (1913) Definition: In*dict", v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indicted; p. pr. & vb.
n. Indicting.] [OE. enditen. See Indite.]
1. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. [Obs.]

2. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or
announce. [Obs.]

I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year.
--Evelyn.

3. (Law) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the
finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find 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.

See Also: accuse, charge

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