ENGLISH DICTIONARY

Indictive

Definition, Meaning & Examples

Part of speech adjective

Quick meaning: Indictive is an adjective meaning (obsolete) proclaimed or declared by authority.

Meaning

(obsolete) proclaimed or declared by authority.

More Meanings

  1. (archaic) accusatory

Example Sentences

Each sang his indictive narrative in turn
fatally indictive, conscious of commanding powers, and yet whipped in the most public pillory, amid the derisive laughter and applause of the world[…]
The Funus Publicum , which we meet with so often , may be sometimes understood as the same with the Indictive Funeral , and sometimes only as a Species of it

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include declarative, denunciatory, declaratory, denunciative, expositional, verdictive.

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