What Does to Be Indited Mean?
To Indite Is to Write Something Creative — You Indite a Letter, and Jot a Grocery List. Don't Confuse Indite with Its Homophone Indict, Which Means "To Charge...
To indite is to write something creative — you indite a letter, and jot a grocery list. Don't confuse indite with its homophone indict, which means "to charge with a crime." Both come from the Latin word dictare, meaning “to declare.” Even if you indite a really bad poem, critics won't indict you.
Is it indicted or indicted?
Why Do We Skip the 'C' in 'Indict'?
We pronounce this word \in-DYTE\ because its original spelling in English was endite, a spelling that was used for 300 years before scholars decided to make it look more like its Latin root word, indictare. Our pronunciation still reflects the original English spelling.
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What does Reindict mean?
transitive verb. : to indict (someone) again The men were indicted but later had to be reindicted after Superior Court Judge Michael Donio agreed that there were problems with some of the testimony presented to the grand jury.—
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