Word Meanings - INDITE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

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.

Additional info about word: INDITE

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. 1. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt. My heart is inditing a good matter. Ps. xlv. 1. Could a common grief have indited such expressions South. Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites. Pope. 2. To invite or ask. She will indite him so supper. Shak. 3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. Spenser.

Related words: (words related to INDITE)

• INFORMITY
  Want of regular form; shapelessness.
• INFORMOUS
  Of irregular form; shapeless. Sir T. Browne.
• ACCUSE
  Accusation. Shak.
• WRITER
  1. One who writes, or has written; a scribe; a clerk. They that handle the pen of the writer. Judg. v. 14. My tongue is the pen of a ready writer. Ps. xlv. 1. 2. One who is engaged in literary composition as a profession; an author; as, a writer
• INFORMANT
  1. One who, or that which, informs, animates, or vivifies. Glanvill. 2. One who imparts information or instruction.
• INFLUENCIVE
  Tending toinfluence; influential.
• INFORMATION
  A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal
• INFORMER
  One who informs a magistrate of violations of law; one who informs against another for violation of some law or penal statute. Common informer , one who habitually gives information of the violation of penal statutes, with a view to a prosecution
• INFORMIDABLE
  Not formidable; not to be feared or dreaded. "Foe not informidable." Milton.
• ANNOUNCE
  + nuntiare to report, relate, nuntius messenger, bearer of news. See 1. To give public notice, or first notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts.
• INFORMED
  Unformed or ill-formed; deformed; shapeless. Spenser. Informed stars. See under Unformed.
• ACCUSER
  One who accuses; one who brings a charge of crime or fault.
• INFORMALLY
  In an informal manner.
• PROCLAIM
  1. To make known by public announcement; to give wide publicity to; to publish abroad; to promulgate; to declare; as, to proclaim war or peace. To proclaim liberty to the captives. Isa. lxi. 1. For the apparel oft proclaims the man. Shak.
• WRITERSHIP
  The office of a writer.
• PROCLAIMER
  One who proclaims.
• INFLUENCE
  Induction. Syn. -- Control; persuasion; ascendency; sway; power; authority; supremacy; mastery; management; restraint; character; reputation; prestige. (more info) 1. A flowing in or upon; influx. God hath his influence into the very essence of
• INFORMALITY
  1. The state of being informal; want of regular, prescribed, or customary form; as, the informality of legal proceedings. 2. An informal, unconventional, or unofficial act or proceeding; something which is not in proper or prescribed form or does
• INFORMATIVE
  Having power to inform, animate, or vivify. Dr. H. More.
• ANNOUNCEMENT
  The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.
• WELL-INFORMED
  Correctly informed; provided with information; well furnished with authentic knowledge; intelligent.
• REWRITE
  To write again. Young.
• PLAYWRITER
  A writer of plays; a dramatist; a playwright. Lecky.
• STORY-WRITER
  1. One who writes short stories, as for magazines. 2. An historian; a chronicler. "Rathums, the story-writer." 1 Esdr. ii. 17.
• REACCUSE
  To accuse again. Cheyne.
• UNDERWRITER
  One who underwrites his name to the conditions of an insurance policy, especially of a marine policy; an insurer.
• MISINFORMER
  One who gives or incorrect information.
• UNWRITE
  To cancel, as what is written; to erase. Milton.
• DICTATE
  1. To tell or utter so that another may write down; to inspire; to compose; as, to dictate a letter to an amanuensis. The mind which dictated the Iliad. Wayland. Pages dictated by the Holy Spirit. Macaulay. 2. To say; to utter; to communicate
• WRITE
  to scratch, to score; akin to OS. writan to write, to tear, to wound, D. rijten to tear, to rend, G. reissen, OHG. rizan, Icel. rita to 1. To set down, as legible characters; to form the conveyance of meaning; to inscribe on any material