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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Its writer, John Dobbs, was as worthy and upright a fellow as ever breathed; and I could not but admire the surprising knowledge of men which shone through every line he had indited.
From The Monikins by James Fenimore Cooper
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
His countenance, well bronzed as a weather-tried trooper’s, was harsh, gloomy, almost morose; not an unhandsome face, but set in such a severe cast the observer involuntarily wondered what experience had indited that scroll.
From The Strollers by Harrison Fisher
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
This made a great sensation, which was not lessened by the report that he had indited a pamphlet entitled Julian's Arts to undermine and extirpate Christianity.
From Books Fatal to Their Authors by P. H. (Peter Hampson) Ditchfield
