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资料来源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
Indite \In*dite"\, v. i.
To compose; to write, as a poem.
Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. --Herbert.
Indite \In*dite"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indited}; p. pr. & vb.
n. {Inditing}.] [OE. enditen to indite, indict, OF. enditer
to indicate, show, dictate, write, inform, and endicter to
accuse; both fr. LL. indictare to show, to accuse, fr. L.
indicere to proclaim, announce; pref. in- in + dicere to say.
The word was influenced also by L. indicare to indicate, and
by dictare to dictate. See {Diction}, and cf. {Indict},
{Indicate}, {Dictate}.]
1. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to
prompt.
My heart is inditing a good matter. --Ps. xlv. 1.
Could a common grief have indited such expressions?
--South.
Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites.
--Pope.
2. To invite or ask. [Obs.]
She will indite him so supper. --Shak.
3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.] --Spenser.
资料来源 : WordNet®
indite
v : produce a literary work; "She composed a poem"; "He wrote
four novels" [syn: {write}, {compose}, {pen}]