Word Meanings - INDICT - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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

Additional info about word: INDICT

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. (more info) Etym: 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.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of INDICT)

• Arraign
• Summon
• accuse
• censure
• indict
• charge
• impeach
• Impeach
• Accuse
• arraign
• criminate

Related words: (words related to INDICT)

• INDICTEE
  A person indicted.
• CHARGEANT
  Burdensome; troublesome. Chaucer.
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• CENSURER
  One who censures. Sha.
• INDICTER
  One who indicts.
• CHARGEABLE
  1. That may be charged, laid, imposed, or imputes; as, a duty chargeable on iron; a fault chargeable on a man. 2. Subject to be charge or accused; liable or responsible; as, revenues chargeable with a claim; a man chargeable with murder. 3. Serving
• IMPEACH
  To challenge or discredit the credibility of, as of a witness, or the validity of, as of commercial paper. Note: When used in law with reference to a witness, the term signifies, to discredit, to show or prove unreliable or unworthy of belief; when
• ARRAIGN
  To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint. Blackstone. 2. To call to account, or accuse, before the bar of reason, taste, or any other tribunal. They will not arraign you for
• CHARGE
  1. To lay on or impose, as a load, tax, or burden; to load; to fill. A carte that charged was with hay. Chaucer. The charging of children's memories with rules. Locke. 2. To lay on or impose, as a task, duty, or trust; to command, instruct, or
• INDICTOR
  One who indicts. Bacon.
• CHARGE D'AFFAIRES
  A diplomatic representative, or minister of an inferior grade, accredited by the government of one state to the minister of foreign affairs of another; also, a substitute, ad interim, for an ambassador or minister plenipotentiary.
• SUMMONS
  A warning or citation to appear in court; a written notification signed by the proper officer, to be served on a person, warning him to appear in court at a day specified, to answer to the plaintiff, testify as a witness, or the like. (more info)
• ACCUSER
  One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
• CENSURE
  1. Judgment either favorable or unfavorable; opinion. Take each man's censure, but reserve thy judgment. Shak. 2. The act of blaming or finding fault with and condemning as wrong; reprehension; blame. Both the censure and the praise were merited.
• CHARGELESS
  Free from, or with little, charge.
• CHARGEABLENESS
  The quality of being chargeable or expensive. Whitelocke.
• IMPEACHER
  One who impeaches.
• ACCUSEMENT
  Accusation. Chaucer.
• INDICTMENT
  The formal statement of an offense, as framed by the prosecuting authority of the State, and found by the grand jury. Note: To the validity of an indictment a finding by the grand jury is essential, while an information rests only on presentation
• CHARGEOUS
  Burdensome. I was chargeous to no man. Wyclif, .
• MISCHARGE
  To charge erroneously, as in account. -- n.
• ENCHARGE
  To charge ; to impose upon. His countenance would express the spirit and the passion of the part he was encharged with. Jeffrey.
• REACCUSE
  To accuse again. Cheyne.
• OVERCHARGE
  1. To charge or load too heavily; to burden; to oppress; to cloy. Sir W. Raleigh. 2. To fill too full; to crowd. Our language is overcharged with consonants. Addison. 3. To charge excessively; to charge beyond a fair rate or price. 4.
• UNCHARGE
  1. To free from a charge or load; to unload. Wyclif. 2. To free from an accusation; to make no charge against; to acquit. Shak.
• SURCHARGEMENT
  The act of surcharging; also, surcharge, surplus. Daniel.
• DISCRIMINATENESS
  The state of being discriminated; distinctness.
• OVERHEAD CHARGES; OVERHEAD EXPENSES
  Those general charges or expenses in any business which cannot be charged up as belonging exclusively to any particular part of the work or product, as where different kinds of goods are made, or where there are different departments in a business;
• INCRIMINATE
  To accuse; to charge with a crime or fault; to criminate.