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To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.

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  1. v. t. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.
  2. v. t. To invite or ask.
  3. v. t. To indict; to accuse; to censure.
  4. v. i. To compose; to write, as a poem.
  5. v. produce a literary work
  6. 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. [Obs.] She will indite him so supper. Shak. 3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.] Spenser. To compose; to write, as a poem. Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. Herbert.
  7. To compose; to write, as a poem.Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. Herbert.
  8. v produce a literary work