Hamlet vocabulary

366 vocabulary words, including people, places, music, artists, etc.

over 366 words
help & settings
[x]
help with word

indite


help with definition
► definition
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)

help with use text
► uses
Uses:
he proceeded to indite a note to Biddy, with my love in it.

Charles Dickens. Great Expectations (1861)
---
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)
---
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)
---
What plume of feathers is he that indited this letter?

William Shakespeare. Love's Labor's Lost
help with search help with search