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.