Definition of indict

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Indict (v. t.) 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..

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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..
Indiction :: Indiction (n.) A cycle of fifteen years.
Indicter :: Indicter (n.) One who indicts.
Indict :: Indict (v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
Revengeful :: Revengeful (a.) Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge..
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..
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..
Vindictive :: Vindictive (a.) Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.
Present :: Present (a.) To bring an indictment against .
Quash :: Quash (v. t.) To abate, annul, overthrow, or make void; as, to quash an indictment..
Indict :: Indict (v. t.) To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
Indictment :: Indictment (n.) The act of indicting, or the state of being indicted..
Endictment :: Endictment (n.) See Indictment.
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..
Indiction :: Indiction (n.) Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment.
Indictee :: Indictee (n.) A person indicted.
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..
Vengeful :: Vengeful (a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
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..
Vindictive :: Vindictive (a.) Punitive.
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