Source : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Indict \In*dict"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Indicted}; p. pr. & vb.
   n. {Indicting}.] [OE. enditen. See {Indite}.]
   1. To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite. [Obs.]

   2. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or
      announce. [Obs.]

            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 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.