indite
verb (used with object)
to compose or write, as a poem.
indites
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present tense formof indite (3rd person singular).present tense
Used to describe things happening now or regularly.
Example Sentences
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The pen engraves for every art and indites for every press.
From The Choctaw Freedmen and The Story of Oak Hill Industrial Academy by Robert Elliott Flickinger
Does not one friend who indites many letters, unanswered, to another, thereby heap coals of fire upon somebody's head as effectually as if he fed the hungry?
From Early Letters of George Wm. Curtis by George Willis Cooke
Like Jenkins when he writes, It can not touch the mind; Unlike what he indites, No nausea leaves behind.
From The Humorous Poetry of the English Language; from Chaucer to Saxe by James Parton
When Pennington for female ills indites, Studying alone not what, but how he writes, The ladies, as his graceful form they scan, Cry, with ill-omened rapture,—"Killing man!"
From The Jest Book The Choicest Anecdotes and Sayings by Mark Lemon
While his meal is being served in his parlor, he indites a note to Hardin's political Mark Antony.
From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Richard Savage
