INDICT

indict. Indict, v.t. to accuse of a crime by grand jury

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In‐dict″ (–dīt″), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Indicted (–dīt″ĕd); p. pr. & vb. n. Indicting.] [[OE. enditen. See Indite.]] 1. 1. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
2. 2. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year. Evelyn. 3. 3. (Law) To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to find 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.