indictor

English

Etymology

From indict +‎ -or.

Noun

indictor (plural indictors)

1. (law) Someone who indicts.

   Synonym: indicter

   • 1622, Francis, Lord Verulam, Viscount St. Alban [i.e. Francis Bacon], The Historie of the Raigne of King Henry the Seventh, […], London: […] W[illiam] Stansby for Matthew Lownes, and William Barret, →OCLC:

     As because in them, if they be followed in course of indictment, there passeth a double jury, the indictors and the triers.

References

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

Anagrams

• Tordinci