endite

English

Etymology 1

From end- +‎ -ite.

Noun

endite (plural endites)

1. An additional lobe on the inner side of the protopodite of a crustacean limb.

   Antonym: exite

2. 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)

1. 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.

Anagrams

• eident, tendie