indictv. t.[OE. enditen. See Indite.]()1. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.()2. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.()I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year. (Evelyn.)3. (Law) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to bring an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.()