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What does "indite" mean?

Indite: Could a common grief have indited such expressions South. Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites. Pope.

Additional senses

  1. 2.To invite or ask. [Obs.] She will indite him so supper. Shak.
  2. 3.To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.] Spenser.
  3. 4.To compose; to write, as a poem. Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. Herbert.

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