Indict

To write; to compose; to dictate; to indite.

To appoint publicly or by authority; to proclaim or announce.

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.