Merriam-Webster Collegiate Dictionary - indict
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Indict
indict
transitive verb Etymology: alteration of earlier indite, from Middle English inditen, from Anglo-French enditer to write, point out, ~ — more at indite Date: circa 1626 1. to charge with a fault or offense ; criticize, accuse 2. to charge with a crime by the finding or presentment of a jury (as a grand jury) in due form of law • ~er or ~or noun
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v.tr. accuse (a person) formally by legal process. Derivatives indictee n. indicter n. Etymology: ME f. AF enditer indict f. OF enditier declare f. Rmc indictare (unrecorded: as IN-(2), DICTATE) ...Толковый словарь английского языка Oxford English Reference
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1. юр. обвинять в правонарушении (по обвинительному акту) 2. юр. предавать суду на основании обвинительного акта to indict smb. for a crime —- обвинить кого-либо в преступлении ...Новый большой англо-русский словарь
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v. предъявлять обвинение to be indicted for theft (или on a charge of theft) - быть обвиненным в краже Syn: see accuse ...Англо-русский словарь
4.
(indicts, indicting, indicted) If someone is indicted for a crime, they are officially charged with it. (mainly AM LEGAL) He was later indicted on corruption charges... She has been indicted for possessing cocaine... VERB: usu passive, be V-ed on n, be V-ed for -ing/n ...Collins COBUILD Advanced Learner's English Dictionary
5.
~ v law especially AmE to officially charge someone with a criminal offence (indict sb for sth) (He was indicted for fraud before a grand jury.) - indictment n ...Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
6.
- c.1303, from Anglo-Fr. enditer "accuse, indict," from O.Fr. enditer "to dictate or inform," from M.L. indictare, from L. in- "in" + dictare "to say, compose in words" (see dictate). Retained its Fr. pronunciation even after the spelling was re-Latinized c.1600. ...Английский Этимологический словарь
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