meaning of indict
1. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
2. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
3. 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. accuse formally of a crime
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