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indict

  (ĭn-dīt') pronunciation
tr.v., -dict·ed, -dict·ing, -dicts.
  1. To accuse of wrongdoing; charge: a book that indicts modern values.
  2. Law. To make a formal accusation or indictment against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.

[Alteration of Middle English enditen, to accuse, write a document. See indite.]

indictee in'dict·ee' (ĭn'dī-tē') n.
indicter in·dict'er or in·dict'or n.
 
 
Thesaurus: indict

verb

    To make an accusation against: accuse, arraign, charge, denounce, incriminate, tax. See attack/defend, law, praise/blame.

 
Antonyms: indict

v

Definition: accuse
Antonyms: absolve, acquit, exonerate


 
Word Tutor: indict
pronunciation

IN BRIEF: To charge a person of committing a crime.

pronunciation If the district attorney wanted, a grand jury would indict a ham sandwich. — Barry Slotnick

 
Wikipedia: indict

An indict (plural indictions, from Latin indictio, "announcement", Byzantine Greek: Ινδικτιών, indikti'ōn) is a unit of time which has been in use since the time of Roman Emperor Diocletian. An indict is equal to 15 years. Indicts were sometimes used in Bulgarian, Romanian, Serbian and old Russian chronicles, where they were adopted from the Byzantine Empire.

The indict was primarily a type of tax on grain, which Diocletian made yearly in 297-298. The size of the tax was determined by calculations once in five years on the basis of the population censuses once in 15 years. The 15-year indict became a unit of time beginning on 1 September in Byzantium and was used since 312. In addition to designating the whole period, the unit could also mark every year of it, when it was combined with an ordinal number (indict 7 would mean the seventh year of the given indict). Indicts were dated from the imagined time of "the Creation of the World", several thousand years BC.

References

  • (Russian) Astronet.ru. Indict. Visited 7 May 2006.

 
Misspellings: indict

Common misspelling(s) of indict

  • indite

 
Translations: Translations for: Indict

Dansk (Danish)
v. tr. - anklage, sætte under tiltale

Nederlands (Dutch)
aanklagen, in staat van beschuldiging stellen

Français (French)
v. tr. - (Jur) accuser, inculper, traduire/poursuivre en justice

Deutsch (German)
v. - anklagen

Ελληνική (Greek)
v. - (νομ.) ασκώ δίωξη, παραπέμπω, μηνύω, ενάγω

Italiano (Italian)
idioms:

  • indict for    accusare di

Português (Portuguese)
v. - indiciar

Русский (Russian)
предъявлять обвинение, провозглашать

Español (Spanish)
v. tr. - acusar, procesar

Svenska (Swedish)
v. - åtala, anklaga

中文(简体) (Chinese (Simplified))
起诉, 指控, 控告

中文(繁體) (Chinese (Traditional))
v. tr. - 起訴, 指控, 控告

한국어 (Korean)
v. tr. - 기소하다, 고발하다

日本語 (Japanese)
v. - 告訴する, 告発する, 起訴する

العربيه (Arabic)
‏(فعل) يتهم‏

עברית (Hebrew)
v. tr. - ‮האשים‬


 
 

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