indict

To charge (a party) by indictment.

To accuse of wrongdoing or criticize severely.

To compose; write: properly and still usually written indite (which see.)

To appoint publicly or by authority; proclaim.

To find chargeable with a criminal offense, and in due forms of law to accuse of the same, as a means of bringing to trial: specifically said of the action of a grand jury. See indictment.

Synonyms Charge, Indict, etc. See accuse.

To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.

To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.

To charge with a crime, in due form of law, by the finding or presentment of a grand jury; to bring an indictment against. It is the peculiar province of a grand jury to indict, as it is of a house of representatives to impeach.

To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.