vt to appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.
2. indict ·vt to write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.
3. indict ·vt 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.