indites वाक्य

"According to the ordinary course of things in those days, the newly-appointed junior would have had nothing to do, except a little abstracting, indexing, and researching, or pretending to search, into records; but young Mill was almost immediately set to indite despatches to the governments of the three Indian Presidencies, on what, in India House phraseology, were distinguished as " political " subjects subjects, that is, for the most part growing out of the relations of the said governments with'native'states of foreign potentates.