endite
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[edit] English
[edit] Noun
endite (plural endites)
- One of the mouthparts of a spider or other arachnids, specifically the lobe of the palpal coxa lateral to the labium.
[edit] Verb
endite (third-person singular simple present endites, present participle enditing, simple past and past participle endited)
- Obsolete form of indite.
- 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics, p.365:
- They speak of Job and his humility, / For clerics when they wish to can endite / Its praises nobly, and especially, / In men — they praise few women when they write.
- 1977, Geoffrey Chaucer, The Canterbury Tales, Penguin Classics, p.365:
