Indite



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解释

GRE 红宝书

• v.写, 赋 ( 诗文)
• ［英］ v.写, 赋 ( 诗文) ( write; compose)

Webster Collegiate

transitive verb (indited; inditing)

• Etymology: Middle English enditen, from Anglo-French enditer to write, compose, from Vulgar Latin *indictare, frequentative of Latin indicere to make known formally, proclaim, from in- + dicere to say — more at diction
• Date: 14th century
• 1.
  • a. make up, compose <indite a poem>
  • b. to give literary or formal expression to
  • c. to put down in writing <indite a message>
• 2. obsolete dictate
• ? inditer noun

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