vt. 写成文章, 创作

[ verb ]
produce a literary work
<verb.creation> compose pen write
She composed a poemHe wrote four novels

Indite \In*dite"\ ([i^]n*d[imac]t"), v. t. [imp. & p. p.
{Indited}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Inditing}.] [OE. enditen to
indite, indict, OF. enditer to indicate, show, dictate,
write, inform, and endicter to accuse; both fr. LL. indictare
to show, to accuse, fr. L. indicere to proclaim, announce;
pref. in- in + dicere to say. The word was influenced also by
L. indicare to indicate, and by dictare to dictate. See
{Diction}, and cf. {Indict}, {Indicate}, {Dictate}.]
1. To compose; to write; to be author of; to dictate; to
prompt.

My heart is inditing a good matter. --Ps. xlv. 1.

Could a common grief have indited such expressions?
--South.

Hear how learned Greece her useful rules indites.
--Pope.

2. To invite or ask. [Obs.]

She will indite him to some supper. --Shak.

3. To indict; to accuse; to censure. [Obs.] --Spenser.


Indite \In*dite"\, v. i.
To compose; to write, as a poem.

Wounded I sing, tormented I indite. --Herbert.