• (America, British): IPA: /ˌɪnˈdaɪt/

indite (indites, present participle inditing; past and past participle indited)

1. (transitive) To physically make letters and words on a writing surface; to inscribe.
2. (transitive) To write, especially a literary or artistic work; to compose.
   • 1844, E. A. Poe, Marginalia

     It is certain that the mere act of inditing tends, in a great degree, to the logicalisation of thought. Whenever, on account of its vagueness, I am dissatisfied with a conception of the brain, I resort forthwith to the pen, for the purpose of obtaining, through its aid, the necessary form, consequence, and precision.

3. To dictate; to prompt.
   • Bible, Psalms xlv. 1

     My heart is inditing a good matter.

   • Could a common grief have indited such expressions?

4. (obsolete) To invite or ask.
   • c. 1591–1595, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Romeo and Ivliet”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act II, scene iv]:

     She will indite him to supper.

5. (obsolete) To indict; to accuse; to censure.
   • , Edmund Spenser, Amoretti, III.14:

     the wonder that my wit cannot endite

indite (uncountable)

1. (mineral) An extremely rare indium-iron sulfide mineral.