indite
[verb]
Synonyms: write, engross, inscribe, scribe

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indite verb¹ trans. [ɪn'dʌɪt] Now rare. Also (earlier) endite. ME.
[Old French enditier: see INDICT verb¹.]
1. Put into words, compose (a poem, story, speech, etc.); give a literary form to; express or describe in a literary composition. ME.
Bible (AV): Psalms 45:1 My heart is inditing a good matter.
■ Disraeli Men far too well acquainted with their subject to indite such tales.
b. Put into writing; write (a letter etc.). LME.
■ P. G. Wodehouse A writer should surely find..golden sentences bubbling up..when he is inditing a letter to the girl he loves.

2. Speak, suggest, or inspire (a form of words to be repeated or written down); = DICTATE verb 1. LME-E19.

3. Enjoin as a law or precept; = DICTATE verb 2. Also, dictate to (a person). LME-E18.

■ inditer noun LME.

■ inditing noun the action of the verb; something indited, a letter, speech, etc.: LME.

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