Definition of indict

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Indict (v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.

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Indite :: Indite (v. t.) To indict; to accuse; to censure.
Revengeful :: Revengeful (a.) Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge..
Indictor :: Indictor (n.) One who indicts.
Indict :: Indict (v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
Indictment :: Indictment (n.) An accusation in general; a formal accusation.
Indiction :: Indiction (n.) A cycle of fifteen years.
Duplicity :: Duplicity (n.) In indictments, the union of two incompatible offenses..
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..
Vindicative :: Vindicative (a.) Revengeful; vindictive.
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..
Indict :: Indict (v. t.) To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
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..
Venire Facias :: Venire facias () A writ in the nature of a summons to cause the party indicted on a penal statute to appear. Called also venire.
Indictable :: Indictable (a.) Capable of being, or liable to be, indicted; subject to indictment; as, an indictable offender or offense..
Technical :: Technical (a.) Of or pertaining to the useful or mechanic arts, or to any science, business, or the like; specially appropriate to any art, science, or business; as, the words of an indictment must be technical..
Vindictive :: Vindictive (a.) Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.
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..
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty..
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..
Oath :: Oath (n.) An appeal (in verification of a statement made) to a superior sanction, in such a form as exposes the party making the appeal to an indictment for perjury if the statement be false..
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