In*dict" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indicted (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Indicting.] [OE. enditen. See Indite.]
1.
To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
[Obs.]
2.
To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
[Obs.]
I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year.
Evelyn.
3. Law
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.
© Webster 1913.