Kenneth G. Wilson (1923–). The Columbia Guide to Standard American English. 1993.
indict, indite (vv.)
The same root, meaning “to write down,” gives us both words. They are homophones, both pronounced in-DEIT, but indict means “to bring formal charges, especially from a grand jury,” and indite is a partly archaic word, or at least an old-fashioned one, meaning “to compose, to write down, to create in a literary sense.” (The variant endite is entirely archaic.)
