Definition of indict

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Indict (v. t.) To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.

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Bench Warrant :: Bench warrant () A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant..
Emplead :: Emplead (v. t.) To accuse; to indict. See Implead.
Present :: Present (a.) To bring an indictment against .
Detainer :: Detainer (n.) The keeping possession of what belongs to another; detention of what is another's, even though the original taking may have been lawful. Forcible detainer is indictable at common law..
Arraignment :: Arraignment (n.) The act of arraigning, or the state of being arraigned; the act of calling and setting a prisoner before a court to answer to an indictment or complaint..
Arraign :: Arraign (v. t.) To call or set as a prisoner at the bar of a court to answer to the matter charged in an indictment or complaint.
Presentment :: Presentment (n.) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment itself..
Indiction :: Indiction (n.) A cycle of fifteen years.
Vindictive :: Vindictive (a.) Punitive.
Indicted :: Indicted (imp. & p. p.) of Indic.
Vindictive :: Vindictive (a.) Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
Vengeful :: Vengeful (a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
Endict :: Endict (v. t.) See Indict.
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one..
Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses..
Endictment :: Endictment (n.) See Indictment.
Vindicative :: Vindicative (a.) Revengeful; vindictive.
Indictive :: Indictive (a.) Proclaimed; declared; public.
Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, No bill, No true bill, or Not found, though in some jurisdictions Ignored is still used..
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