indictive

From Latin indictivus. See indict.

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indictive

1. (obsolete) proclaimed or declared by authority
   • 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

2. (archaic) accusatory
   • 1880, Thomas Power O'Connor, Lord Beaconsfield: A Biography:

     fatally indictive, conscious of commanding powers, and yet whipped in the most public pillory, amid the derisive laughter and applause of the world […]

   • 1880, Mark Twain [pseudonym] (Samuel L[anghorne] Clemens), A Tramp Abroad; […], Hartford, Conn.: American Publishing Company; London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC:

     Each sang his indictive narrative in turn

• indictively

• “indictive”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

indictīve

1. vocative masculine singular of indictīvus