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▪ I. inditement Obs. or arch.|ɪnˈdaɪtmənt|
(Also 7 indictment.)
[f. indite v. + -ment. Cf. OF. enditement, -dictement suggestion, instigation (Wace, 12th c.).]
The action of composing in prose or verse; composition.
1567Drant Horace, Ep. Ded. *iij, No potentate of all the world..hath more fayre inditements to his commendation. a1635Naunton Fragm. Reg. (Arb.) 56 His Secretaries did little for him by the way of Inditement, wherein they could seldome please him, he was so facete and choice in his phrase and stile. a1639Wotton Ps. civ, May..both harp and voice In sweet indictment of thy hymns rejoyce. 1805W. Taylor in Monthly Mag. XIX. 328 The Ecclesiasticus..was actually in the process of composition or inditement. 1806― in Ann. Rev. IV. 604 They gave up these long undertakings, as likely to outlast the spirit, the rapture, the enthusiasm, of enditement.
▪ II. inditement
obs. form of indictment. |