indictive

English

Etymology

From Latin indictivus. See indict.

Adjective

indictive (comparative more indictive, superlative most indictive)

1. proclaimed; declared; public
   • 1696, Basil Kennett, Romae Antiquae Notitia: Or, the Antiquities of Rome:

     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

Derived terms

• indictively

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “indictive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

Latin

Adjective

indictīve

1. vocative masculine singular of indictīvus