indite
verb (used with object)
to compose or write, as a poem.
have indited
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present perfectof indite.present perfect
Used to describe actions that started in the past and continue into or have direct relevance to the present.
Example Sentences
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The same brain could scarcely have indited the bitter reply to the petition of the triumvirs, and devised the cunning project of entangling their opponents.
From History of the Rise of the Huguenots Volume 2 by Henry Martyn Baird
Both of them seem at times to have perfectly understood and felt his greatness, and both of them have indited glorious things in its exaltation.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 57, No. 352, February 1845 by Various
Up to the present I have indited my notes day by day.
From Facing the Flag by Jules Verne
They were letters such as Priam might have indited on the night when his Troy was in a blaze.
From Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 61, No. 378, April, 1847 by Various
That a simple peasant-woman could have indited such a letter, or could have known aught respecting her father, seemed incredible.
From The Golden Dog by William Kirby
