1. To write, to produce, or to compose, a literary work; such as, a poem, a letter, or a speech: "The mayor hired a new person to indite her speeches."
2. To treat in a literary composition: "The poet was planing to indite a new poem praising the beauty of the new fountain that had been constructed for the city."
3. Etymology: from Latin in-, "toward" + dictare, "to declare, to compose".