Definition of indict

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

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Indict :: Indict (v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
Indictment :: Indictment (n.) An accusation in general; a formal accusation.
Misnomer :: Misnomer (n.) The misnaming of a person in a legal instrument, as in a complaint or indictment; any misnaming of a person or thing; a wrong or inapplicable name or title..
Endictment :: Endictment (n.) See Indictment.
Present :: Present (a.) To lay before a public body, or an official, for consideration, as before a legislature, a court of judicature, a corporation, etc.; as, to present a memorial, petition, remonstrance, or indictment..
Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information..
Information :: Information (v. t.) A proceeding in the nature of a prosecution for some offens against the government, instituted and prosecuted, really or nominally, by some authorized public officer on behalt of the government. It differs from an indictment in criminal cases chiefly in not being based on the finding of a grand juri. See Indictment..
Emplead :: Emplead (v. t.) To accuse; to indict. See Implead.
Eavesdropping :: Eavesdropping (n.) The habit of lurking about dwelling houses, and other places where persons meet fro private intercourse, secretly listening to what is said, and then tattling it abroad. The offense is indictable at common law..
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..
Count :: Count (v. t.) A formal statement of the plaintiff's case in court; in a more technical and correct sense, a particular allegation or charge in a declaration or indictment, separately setting forth the cause of action or prosecution..
Vindictive :: Vindictive (a.) Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.
Vengeful :: Vengeful (a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
Vindicative :: Vindicative (a.) Revengeful; vindictive.
Endict :: Endict (v. t.) See Indict.
Indictor :: Indictor (n.) One who indicts.
Find :: Find (v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person..
Traverse :: Traverse (a.) To deny formally, as what the opposite party has alleged. When the plaintiff or defendant advances new matter, he avers it to be true, and traverses what the other party has affirmed. To traverse an indictment or an office is to deny it..
Indicting :: Indicting (p. pr. & vb. n.) of Indic.
Lay :: Lay (v. t.) To present or offer; as, to lay an indictment in a particular county; to lay a scheme before one..
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