2. To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or
announce. [Obs.]
I am told shall have no Lent indicted this year.
--Evelyn.
3. (Law) 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.