- To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. - To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or
announce. - 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.
Definition
[ v. t.]