indict – English verb conjugation

Nominal Forms

Infinitive: to indict
Participle: indicted
Gerund: indicting

Cognates

-

Indicative

Subjunctive

Conditional

Imperative

you	indict
we	Let's indict
you	indict

Indicative

Conditional

Synonyms & Antonyms

Synonyms

accuse

arraign, cite, charge, inculpate, censure, incriminate

Antonyms

declare or find not guilty

accuse, blame, charge, condemn, convict, impeach, incriminate, inculpate, acquit

accuse

vindicate, exonerate, pardon, acquit

Additional Information

Phrasal Verbs

Etymology

1. c.1303, from Anglo-Fr. enditer "accuse, indict" (1278), from O.Fr. enditer "to dictate or inform," from M.L. indictare "to declare, proclaim in writing," from L. in- "in" + dictare "to say, compose in words" (see dictate). Retained its Fr. pronunciation even after the spelling was re-Latinized c.1600.
2. From Middle English enditen, endyten (“to accuse”), from Old French enditer (“to dictate, indite”), from Late Latin indictāre, frequentative of Latin indicere (“to proclaim”), from in- + dicere (“to say”), or from in- + dictāre (“to say often, to dictate”). Doublet of indite.
3. The irregular spelling is due to the word having been borrowed into Middle English from Old French, and not from Latin as was the case with most other descendants of dictāre (but see dight). The borrowed /iː/ regularly shifted to /aɪ/ in the course of the Great Vowel Shift; the ⟨c⟩ represents a later attempt at graphic Latinisation. See: Old French 'enditer', Latin 'indicere'.

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