indite

• POS: Verb (transitive)
• HYPHEN: in=dite

CIDE DICTIONARY

indite, v. t. [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.].

•  To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.  [1913 Webster]

  "My heart is inditing a good matter."  [1913 Webster]

  "Could a common grief have indited such expressions?"  [1913 Webster]

  "Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites."  [1913 Webster]
•  To invite or ask.  [1913 Webster]

  "She will indite him to some supper."  [1913 Webster]
•  To indict; to accuse; to censure.  Spenser.  [1913 Webster]

indite, v. i. 

 To compose; to write, as a poem.  [1913 Webster]
"Wounded I sing, tormented I indite."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

indite, v.tr. formal or joc.
1 put (a speech etc.) into words.
2 write (a letter etc.).

Etymology

ME f. OF enditier: see INDICT

THESAURUS

indite

assemble, author, build, cast, coauthor, collaborate, compose, compound, concoct, construct, create, dash off, devise, editorialize, elaborate, engross, erect, evolve, extrude, fabricate, fashion, form, formulate, frame, free-lance, fudge together, get up, ghost, ghostwrite, inscribe, knock off, knock out, make, make up, manufacture, mature, mold, novelize, pamphleteer, patch together, piece together, prefabricate, prepare, produce, put together, put up, raise, rear, run up, scenarize, scribe, set up, shape, throw on paper, whomp up, write

ROGET THESAURUS

indite

Writing

VB write, pen, copy, engross, write out, write out fair, transcribe, scribble, scrawl, scrabble, scratch, interline, stain paper, write down, sign, enface, compose, indite, draw up, draft, formulate, dictate, inscribe, throw on paper, dash off, manifold, take up the pen, take pen in hand, shed ink, spill ink, dip one's pen in ink.