indite
verb (used with object)
to compose or write, as a poem.
had indited
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past perfectof indite.past perfect
Used to express a completed action that took place before another specific past action occurred.
Example Sentences
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One had indited ten lines of free verse in her honor, another had soared on the wings of seventeenth century English into a panegyric on her beauty and her halo of mystery.
From Black Oxen by Gertrude Franklin Horn Atherton
The superscription was Jessie's; the note the short and cold farewell she had indited after her parting with Orrin Wyllys, on the 6th of September.
From Jessamine A Novel by Marion Harland
So she had indited a long, passionate farewell letter to him.
From A Little Garrison A Realistic Novel of German Army Life of To-day by Fritz Oswald Bilse
In a handwriting increasingly ragged and untidy, Cavour had indited a paragraph forgiving the world for its scorn, hoping that some day mankind would indeed have easy access to the stars.
From Starman's Quest by Stan Mack
The busy fingers which had indited the last fond message to the anxious wife or mother would never caress them more.
From The Third Day at Stone's River by Gilbert C. Kniffin
