Dictionary entry

Indict

Webster's Dictionary 1913

In‐dict″ (–dīt″), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Indicted (–dīt″ĕd); p. pr. & vb. n.Indicting.] [OE. enditen. See Indite.]

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

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

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.