indite. The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

The American Heritage^® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000.

indite

SYLLABICATION:	in·dite
PRONUNCIATION:	n-dt
TRANSITIVE VERB:	Inflected forms: in·dit·ed, in·dit·ing, in·dites 1. To write; compose. 2. To set down in writing. 3. Obsolete To dictate.
ETYMOLOGY:	Middle English enditen, from Old French enditer, from Vulgar Latin ^*indictre : Latin in-, toward; see in–² + Latin dictre, to compose, to say habitually, frequentative of dcere, to say; see deik- in Appendix I.
OTHER FORMS:	in·ditement —NOUN in·diter —NOUN


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