indite
The verb indite, rarely used today, means “compose” or “put down in writing,” like when you find a quiet place to sit down with your notebook and pen and indite a journal entry or a first draft of a short story.
To indite is to write something creative — you indite a letter, and jot a grocery list. Don’t confuse indite with its homophone indict, which means “to charge with a crime.” Both come from the Latin word dictare, meaning “to declare.” Even if you indite a really bad poem, critics won’t indict you.
Definitions of indite
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produce a literary work
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draw
write a legal document or paper
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lyric
write lyrics for (a song)
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write about, write of, write on
write about a particular topic
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profile
write about
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paragraph
write paragraphs; work as a paragrapher
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paragraph
write about in a paragraph
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write off
write something fluently, and without hesitation
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dash off, fling off, knock off, scratch off, toss off
write quickly
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rewrite
rewrite so as to make fit to suit a new or different purpose
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write copy
write for commercial publications
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adopt, dramatise, dramatize
put into dramatic form
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draft, outline
draw up an outline or sketch for something
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poetise, poetize, verse, versify
compose verses or put into verse
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author
be the author of
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annotate, footnote
add explanatory notes to or supply with critical comments
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cite, reference
refer to
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write out, write up
put into writing; write in complete form
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script
write a script for
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relyric
write new lyrics for (a song)
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metrify
compose in poetic meter
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spondaise, spondaize
make spondaic
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elegise, elegize
compose an elegy
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sonnet
compose a sonnet
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co-author
be a co-author on (a book, a paper)
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ghost, ghostwrite
write for someone else
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create verbally
create with or from words
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