endite
English
Noun
endite (plural endites)
- An additional lobe on the inner side of the protopodite of a crustacean limb.
- Antonym: exite
- One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium.
- Synonym: maxilla
Etymology 2
See indite.
Verb
endite (third-person singular simple present endites, present participle enditing, simple past and past participle endited)
- Obsolete form of indite.
- 1672, [Andrew Marvell], The Rehearsal Transpros’d: Or, Animadversions upon a Late Book, Entituled, A Preface, Shewing what Grounds there are of Fears and Jealousies of Popery., London: [s.n.], →OCLC, page 4:
- From a VVriter of Books, our Author is already dvvindled to a Preface-monger, and from Prefaces I am confident he may in a ſhort time be improved to endite Tickets for the Bear-Garden.
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