Definitions for "Indict"
Keywords:  accuse, indite, arson, impeach, crime
To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
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.
accuse formally of a crime
To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
An indict (plural indiction, from Latin indiction, "announcement", Byzantine Greek: Ινδικτιών, indikti'ōn) is a unit of time which has been in use since the time of Roman Emperor Diocletian. An indict is equal to 15 years. Indicts were sometimes used in Bulgarian and old Russian chronicles, where they were adopted from the Byzantine Empire.