Definition of indict

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Indict (v. t.) To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.

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Indiction :: Indiction (n.) A cycle of fifteen years.
Conclusion :: Conclusion (n.) The end or close of a pleading, e.g., the formal ending of an indictment, against the peace, etc..
Find :: Find (v. t.) To arrive at, as a conclusion; to determine as true; to establish; as, to find a verdict; to find a true bill (of indictment) against an accused person..
Indiction :: Indiction (n.) Declaration; proclamation; public notice or appointment.
Libel :: Libel (n.) A malicious publication expressed either in print or in writing, or by pictures, effigies, or other signs, tending to expose another to public hatred, contempt, or ridicule. Such publication is indictable at common law..
Vengeful :: Vengeful (a.) Vindictive; retributive; revengeful.
Revengeful :: Revengeful (a.) Full of, or prone to, revenge; vindictive; malicious; revenging; wreaking revenge..
Vindictive :: Vindictive (a.) Disposed to revenge; prompted or characterized by revenge; revengeful.
Vindicative :: Vindicative (a.) Revengeful; vindictive.
Plead :: Plead (v. t.) To allege or cite in a legal plea or defense, or for repelling a demand in law; to answer to an indictment; as, to plead usury; to plead statute of limitations; to plead not guilty..
Indicter :: Indicter (n.) One who indicts.
Charge :: Charge (v. t.) An accusation of a wrong of offense; allegation; indictment; specification of something alleged.
Indictment :: Indictment (n.) An accusation in general; a formal accusation.
Indictee :: Indictee (n.) A person indicted.
Vindictive :: Vindictive (a.) Punitive.
Bench Warrant :: Bench warrant () A process issued by a presiding judge or by a court against a person guilty of some contempt, or indicted for some crime; -- so called in distinction from a justice's warrant..
Indicted :: Indicted (imp. & p. p.) of Indic.
Ignoramus :: Ignoramus (n.) We are ignorant; we ignore; -- being the word formerly written on a bill of indictment by a grand jury when there was not sufficient evidence to warrant them in finding it a true bill. The phrase now used is, No bill, No true bill, or Not found, though in some jurisdictions Ignored is still used..
Presentment :: Presentment (n.) The notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them, as, the presentment of a nuisance, a libel, or the like; also, an inquisition of office and indictment by a grand jury; an official accusation presented to a tribunal by the grand jury in an indictment, or the act of offering an indictment; also, the indictment itself..
Prosecution :: Prosecution (n.) The institution, or commencement, and continuance of a criminal suit; the process of exhibiting formal charges against an offender before a legal tribunal, and pursuing them to final judgment on behalf of the state or government, as by indictment or information..
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