Endited

Part of speech: verb

Definitions

1. To set down in words or compose a text, letter, or document in writing ; to formally bring a charge against someone, an archaic usage
2. Writing out a piece of prose or verse on paper ; an old-fashioned way of formally charging a person with wrongdoing
3. To draft a written work in full sentences ; to make a legal accusation against a person, a meaning now found mainly in older texts

Etymology: "Endited" is the past tense and past participle of "endite," a verb meaning to put something into words, to compose a piece of writing. The verb is a variant of "indite," and the two are closely related: "endite" is a respelling that substituted the "en-" prefix for "in-," a change that happened within English spelling rather than through a separate borrowing. The base of both forms is the Latin "indictare," meaning to proclaim or announce, which passed into Old French and then into English, where it came to mean to write or compose. Its path into English runs through the same stock of words that gave us "indict," which has kept the older sense of formal accusation.

Synonyms: wrote, composed