indictmentn.

/ɪnˈdʌɪtmənt/

Forms: α. Middle English–1500s endyte-, Middle English–1700s endite-, Middle English endyt-, 1500s endyght-, 1500s–1600s endightment. β. Middle English–1500s indyte-, 1500s–1700s indite-, 1600s indightment. γ. 1500s– indictment.

Etymology: < Anglo-Norman enditement, -dictement, < enditer indict v.¹

a. The action of indicting or accusing, a formal accusation; spec. in English Law, the legal process in which a formal accusation is preferred to and presented by a Grand Jury. Hence the phrases to bring in or lay an indictment, and (of the Grand Jury) to find an indictment.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun]

wrayingc1000

indictment1303

accusationa1382

information1387

appeaching1401

allegeancea1430

supposal1429

accuse?a1439

appealing1440

ditingc1440

indictingc1440

detection1471

cusing1488

indictament1523

arraigning1533

denouncement1544

arraignment1549

raignment1570

delation1578

denunciation1588

prosecution1590

accusement1596

inditure1614

aggravation1626

arraign1638

delating1820

billing1884

beef1928

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > bring a charge [verb (intransitive)]

to bring in or lay an indictment1303

to call upon ——1448

accuse1546

propound1576

prosecute1611

to call on ——a1616

to lay an information1838

charge1891

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > indictment before grand jury

indictment1581

1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 8915 Ne quest take of endytement Yn holy cherche, oþer ȝerde purseynt.

c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 261/2 Indytynge, or indytement for trespas, indictacio.

a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 193 The tydingis of þis endytment cam to þe knowlech of þe duke of Gloucetir, and he..swore on þe holy gospel þat it was neuyr his purpos, ne his wil, for to purpos noþing ageyn þe welfare of þe kyng.

1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. v. 484 I take an Enditement to be the Verdite of the Iurors, grounded upon the accusation of a third person.

1645 J. Milton Colasterion 10 Who dares bring in such a foul endightment against the divine Law.

1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 203 Mr. Haughty,..How saiest thou, art thou guilty of this Indictment, or not?

1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 512 The Hand-writing against him may be Cancelled in the Court of Heaven, and yet the Enditement run on in the Court of Conscience.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xix. 262 When such an indictment is therefore found by a grand jury of freeholders in the king's bench,..it is to be removed by a writ of certiorari into the court of the lord high steward.

1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. xiii. 280 You plead, my lord, to an indictment I have never laid.

1886 F. W. Farrar Hist. Interpr. 309 An even more tremendous indictment against the decadent morality of Rome and her priesthood might be drawn from the writings of Petrarch.

figurative.1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 3 Must we against this glory of Gods transcendent love towards us be still the servants of a literall indightment?

b. The legal document containing the charge; ‘a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury’ (Blackstone). Hence to draw (up) an indictment.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > indictment before grand jury > document containing

indictment1506

bill of indictmentc1530

1506 W. de Worde (title) The boke of Justyces of peas the charge with..all that longyth to ony Justyce to make endytements of haute treason, petyt treason.

1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxvi When thenditement was openly redde, the Duke sayd it is false.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vi. 1 This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings, Which in a set hand fairely is engrosst, That it may be this day read ouer in Paules.

1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 15 The Enditement was drawn up.

1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 7 Notaries and Journeymen to Courts, to draw up Inditements, Bonds, Leases, Contracts, and the like.

1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1889) II. xv. 177 A motion in arrest of judgment was instantly made, on the ground that a Latin word endorsed on the back of the indictment was incorrectly spelt.

1883 J. F. Stephen Hist. Criminal Law I. 274 When they [the grand jury] have heard enough to satisfy themselves that a prima facie case is or is not made out against the prisoner, they endorse upon the indictment ‘a true bill’ or ‘no true bill’ as the case may be.

figurative.1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. vi. 103 The gloomy indictment has been penned by our own hands.

c. bill of indictment n. the written accusation as preferred to the Grand Jury, before it has been by them either found a true bill, or ignored.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > indictment before grand jury > document containing

indictment1506

bill of indictmentc1530

c1530 Star Chamb. Proceed. in Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd Ser. IV. 322 The seid William Trewhitt toke the seid billes of indytement of the seid fyle.

1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Ciij^v The..Elders..had neuer put vppe any Billes of endightment against her the last Parliament.

1678 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ (1736) II. xxii. 157 If a bill of indictment for murder, or other capital offence be presented against A, if upon the hearing the king's evidence..they are dissatisfied, they [the grand inquest] may return the bill ignoramus.

1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xxiii. 301 A presentment..is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the king.

1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 35 The absurdities, with which..a bill of indictment is frequently stuffed.

2. Scots Law. A form of process by which a criminal is brought to trial at the instance of the Lord Advocate; the formal written charge.

ΘΚΠ

society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > a charge, accusation, or allegation > criminal charge > written

information1681

indictment1773

1773 Erskine Just. iv. iv. §87 The trial of proper crimes by the court of justiciary proceeds either on indictment, which method is generally observed when the accused person to be tried is in prison, or [etc.].

1773 Erskine Just. iv. iv. §89 That part of the indictment..which contains the ground of the charge against the defender, and the nature and degree of the punishment that he ought to suffer, is called the libel.

1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 440/2 Where the private party is the principal prosecutor..it is not in the form of an indictment that he brings his action, but in the form of criminal letters.

1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 441/1 The indictment is prepared in a syllogistic form, in which the major proposition states the nature of the crime..the minor proposition states the offence actually committed..the conclusion is, that on the panel's conviction by the jury, he ought to suffer the punishment inflicted by law on the crime.

Draft additions 1993

d. transferred. That which serves to accuse or censure; a condemnation, criticism, or charge.

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the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun] > instance of

sakec1175

challengec1315

quarrela1325

accusationa1382

cause1382

blamec1384

pointa1387

accusementa1393

chesouna1400

objectionc1410

accuse?a1439

thing1548

facing-carda1624

intentation1623

indictment1871

1871 W. D. Christie Life Shaftesbury II. xii. 81 The heavy indictment of history against the so-called Cabal Ministry.

1902 G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession 8 Mrs Warren's defence of herself and indictment of society is the thing that most needs saying.

1918 T. Roosevelt in Metropolitan Mag. (N.Y.) June 9/1 The most powerful indictment of the corrupt and inefficient tyranny of the Romanoffs..is that it produced Bolshevism.

1930 Engineering 25 July 111/3 A common indictment against modern conditions is that machine tending is ‘soul destroying’.

1954 W. Faulkner Fable 334 Yelling at them—a sound hoarse, loud, without language, not of threat or indictment either.

1989 Independent 10 Oct. 23/2 The indictment now levelled against the Government is that the years of Thatcherite prosperity have been matched by a deterioration in public services and the environment.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020).

单词	indictment
释义	indictmentn. /ɪnˈdʌɪtmənt/ Forms: α. Middle English–1500s endyte-, Middle English–1700s endite-, Middle English endyt-, 1500s endyght-, 1500s–1600s endightment. β. Middle English–1500s indyte-, 1500s–1700s indite-, 1600s indightment. γ. 1500s– indictment. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman enditement, -dictement, < enditer indict v.¹ 1. a. The action of indicting or accusing, a formal accusation; spec. in English Law, the legal process in which a formal accusation is preferred to and presented by a Grand Jury. Hence the phrases to bring in or lay an indictment, and (of the Grand Jury) to find an indictment. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] wrayingc1000 indictment1303 accusationa1382 information1387 appeaching1401 allegeancea1430 supposal1429 accuse?a1439 appealing1440 ditingc1440 indictingc1440 detection1471 cusing1488 indictament1523 arraigning1533 denouncement1544 arraignment1549 raignment1570 delation1578 denunciation1588 prosecution1590 accusement1596 inditure1614 aggravation1626 arraign1638 delating1820 billing1884 beef1928 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > bring a charge [verb (intransitive)] to bring in or lay an indictment1303 to call upon ——1448 accuse1546 propound1576 prosecute1611 to call on ——a1616 to lay an information1838 charge1891 society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > indictment before grand jury indictment1581 1303 R. Mannyng Handlyng Synne 8915 Ne quest take of endytement Yn holy cherche, oþer ȝerde purseynt. c1440 Promptorium Parvulorum 261/2 Indytynge, or indytement for trespas, indictacio. a1464 J. Capgrave Abbreuiacion of Cron. (Cambr. Gg.4.12) (1983) 193 The tydingis of þis endytment cam to þe knowlech of þe duke of Gloucetir, and he..swore on þe holy gospel þat it was neuyr his purpos, ne his wil, for to purpos noþing ageyn þe welfare of þe kyng. 1581 W. Lambarde Eirenarcha (1588) iv. v. 484 I take an Enditement to be the Verdite of the Iurors, grounded upon the accusation of a third person. 1645 J. Milton Colasterion 10 Who dares bring in such a foul endightment against the divine Law. 1682 J. Bunyan Holy War 203 Mr. Haughty,..How saiest thou, art thou guilty of this Indictment, or not? View more context for this quotation 1694 R. South 12 Serm. II. 512 The Hand-writing against him may be Cancelled in the Court of Heaven, and yet the Enditement run on in the Court of Conscience. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xix. 262 When such an indictment is therefore found by a grand jury of freeholders in the king's bench,..it is to be removed by a writ of certiorari into the court of the lord high steward. 1849 G. P. R. James Woodman I. xiii. 280 You plead, my lord, to an indictment I have never laid. 1886 F. W. Farrar Hist. Interpr. 309 An even more tremendous indictment against the decadent morality of Rome and her priesthood might be drawn from the writings of Petrarch. figurative.1645 J. Milton Tetrachordon 3 Must we against this glory of Gods transcendent love towards us be still the servants of a literall indightment? b. The legal document containing the charge; ‘a written accusation of one or more persons of a crime or misdemeanor, preferred to, and presented upon oath by, a grand jury’ (Blackstone). Hence to draw (up) an indictment. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > indictment before grand jury > document containing indictment1506 bill of indictmentc1530 1506 W. de Worde (title) The boke of Justyces of peas the charge with..all that longyth to ony Justyce to make endytements of haute treason, petyt treason. 1548 Hall's Vnion: Henry VIII f. lxxxvi When thenditement was openly redde, the Duke sayd it is false. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard III iii. vi. 1 This is the indictment of the good Lord Hastings, Which in a set hand fairely is engrosst, That it may be this day read ouer in Paules. View more context for this quotation 1686 F. Spence tr. A. Varillas Ἀνεκδοτα Ἑτερουιακα 15 The Enditement was drawn up. 1715 R. South 12 Serm. IV. 7 Notaries and Journeymen to Courts, to draw up Inditements, Bonds, Leases, Contracts, and the like. 1855 T. B. Macaulay Hist. Eng. (1889) II. xv. 177 A motion in arrest of judgment was instantly made, on the ground that a Latin word endorsed on the back of the indictment was incorrectly spelt. 1883 J. F. Stephen Hist. Criminal Law I. 274 When they [the grand jury] have heard enough to satisfy themselves that a prima facie case is or is not made out against the prisoner, they endorse upon the indictment ‘a true bill’ or ‘no true bill’ as the case may be. figurative.1875 A. Maclaren Serm. 2nd Ser. vi. 103 The gloomy indictment has been penned by our own hands. c. bill of indictment n. the written accusation as preferred to the Grand Jury, before it has been by them either found a true bill, or ignored. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > indictment before grand jury > document containing indictment1506 bill of indictmentc1530 c1530 Star Chamb. Proceed. in Proc. Soc. Antiq. 2nd Ser. IV. 322 The seid William Trewhitt toke the seid billes of indytement of the seid fyle. 1589 ‘Pasquill of England’ Returne of Pasquill sig. Ciij^v The..Elders..had neuer put vppe any Billes of endightment against her the last Parliament. 1678 M. Hale Historia Placitorum Coronæ (1736) II. xxii. 157 If a bill of indictment for murder, or other capital offence be presented against A, if upon the hearing the king's evidence..they are dissatisfied, they [the grand inquest] may return the bill ignoramus. 1769 W. Blackstone Comm. Laws Eng. IV. xxiii. 301 A presentment..is the notice taken by a grand jury of any offence from their own knowledge or observation, without any bill of indictment laid before them at the suit of the king. 1817 J. Mill Hist. Brit. India III. vi. i. 35 The absurdities, with which..a bill of indictment is frequently stuffed. 2. Scots Law. A form of process by which a criminal is brought to trial at the instance of the Lord Advocate; the formal written charge. ΘΚΠ society > law > administration of justice > general proceedings > accusation, allegation, or indictment > [noun] > a charge, accusation, or allegation > criminal charge > written information1681 indictment1773 1773 Erskine Just. iv. iv. §87 The trial of proper crimes by the court of justiciary proceeds either on indictment, which method is generally observed when the accused person to be tried is in prison, or [etc.]. 1773 Erskine Just. iv. iv. §89 That part of the indictment..which contains the ground of the charge against the defender, and the nature and degree of the punishment that he ought to suffer, is called the libel. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 440/2 Where the private party is the principal prosecutor..it is not in the form of an indictment that he brings his action, but in the form of criminal letters. 1861 G. Ross W. Bell's Dict. Law Scotl. (rev. ed.) 441/1 The indictment is prepared in a syllogistic form, in which the major proposition states the nature of the crime..the minor proposition states the offence actually committed..the conclusion is, that on the panel's conviction by the jury, he ought to suffer the punishment inflicted by law on the crime. Draft additions 1993 d. transferred. That which serves to accuse or censure; a condemnation, criticism, or charge. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > testing > accusation, charge > [noun] > instance of sakec1175 challengec1315 quarrela1325 accusationa1382 cause1382 blamec1384 pointa1387 accusementa1393 chesouna1400 objectionc1410 accuse?a1439 thing1548 facing-carda1624 intentation1623 indictment1871 1871 W. D. Christie Life Shaftesbury II. xii. 81 The heavy indictment of history against the so-called Cabal Ministry. 1902 G. B. Shaw Mrs. Warren's Profession 8 Mrs Warren's defence of herself and indictment of society is the thing that most needs saying. 1918 T. Roosevelt in Metropolitan Mag. (N.Y.) June 9/1 The most powerful indictment of the corrupt and inefficient tyranny of the Romanoffs..is that it produced Bolshevism. 1930 Engineering 25 July 111/3 A common indictment against modern conditions is that machine tending is ‘soul destroying’. 1954 W. Faulkner Fable 334 Yelling at them—a sound hoarse, loud, without language, not of threat or indictment either. 1989 Independent 10 Oct. 23/2 The indictment now levelled against the Government is that the years of Thatcherite prosperity have been matched by a deterioration in public services and the environment. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online December 2020). < n.1303
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