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indite
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Definition:1. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to prompt.2. To invite or ask. [Obs.]3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.]Noah Webster. Webster's Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
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he proceeded to indite a note to Biddy, with my love in it.
Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
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he bored us with long lectures once a week, and with evening readings from books of his own inditing, about sudden deaths and judgments, which made us afraid to go to bed.
Charlotte Brontë. Jane Eyre (1847)
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Bullet-head, could indite, if it so pleased him, a whole paragraph—aye! a whole article—in which that contemptible vowel should not once—not even once—make its appearance.
Edgar Allan Poe. The Works of Edgar Allan Poe — Volume 4: X-ing a Paragraph (1849)
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What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter?
William Shakespeare. Love's Labor's Lost
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