“This is the largest, biggest drug lord that we’ve ever seen in the world,” he said. “Therefore I [support] extradition to the United States where there are multiple enditements in multiple cties – San Diego, New York and Texas and Chicago – where we can deal with him in a secure, safe way and bring him to justice.”
I have honestly never seen the word “enditement” before. Online dictionaries refer queries to indict.
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davidmich
An endite, according to the OED, is an appendage on the inner side of the limb of a crustacean. (Those on the outer side are exites.)
It’s also an obsolete spelling of the verb indict. It fell out of use, according to the OED, in the sixteenth century, which makes it less likely that the NYP usage is a rare local survival of a spelling considered obsolete elsewhere, and more likely that it’s a straight-up error.
Confusingly, endite is also an obsolete spelling of the verb indite, meaning to put into words, to write down, to express in a literary way. In that sense endite survived until the eighteenth century. But I doubt they use this word (in either spelling) at the NYP.