Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Indict

Indict (in*dīt") , transitive verb

[Old English enditen. See Indite.]

1.
To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. [Obsolete]
2.
To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce. [Obsolete]
I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year. — Evelyn
3.
(Law) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to bring an indictment against; as, to indict a man for arson. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.