Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for IN-DI-CA'VIT
IN-DI-CA'VIT, n. [L.]
In England, a writ of prohibition which lies for the patron of a church whose incumbent is sued in the spiritual court, by another clergyman, for tithes amounting to a fourth part of the profits of the advowson. Blackstone.
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