Thesaurus: indict

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1. v. t. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
2. v. t. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
3. v. t. 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.
4. v. accuse formally of a crime
5. 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.
6. To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding orpresentment of a grand jury; to find an indictment against; as, toindict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand juryto indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.
7. v:100 v. accuse formally of a crime