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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Colonel Valois indites to Judge Philip Hardin a letter of last requests.
From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Richard Savage
He rings for Barney, and indites a note to his foreman at the "Golden Chariot."
From The Little Lady of Lagunitas A Franco-Californian Romance by Richard Savage
There are phrases that make you writhe, such as "the etymology of the mansion's designation", and the shocking persistency with which Charlotte Brontë "indites", "peruses", and "retains".
From The Three Brontës by May Sinclair
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
When Mr. Harlowe condescends to sign his much valued Name, the dictatorial Spirit of an indulged tyrannic Disposition indites every arbitrary Command.
From Remarks on Clarissa (1749) by Sarah Fielding
