Indict vs Prosecute - What's the difference?

As verbs the difference between indict and prosecute

is that indict is to accuse of wrongdoing; charge while prosecute is to start criminal proceedings against.

(en verb)

To accuse of wrongdoing; charge.

a book that indicts modern values

(legal) To make a formal accusation or indictment for a crime against (a party) by the findings of a jury, especially a grand jury.

his former manager was indicted for fraud

(prosecut)

(legal) To start criminal proceedings against.

to prosecute a man for trespass, or for a riot

* Milton

To acquit themselves and prosecute their foes.

(legal) To charge, try.

To seek to obtain by legal process.

to prosecute a right or a claim in a court of law

To pursue something to the end.

to prosecute a scheme, hope, or claim

* Shakespeare

I am beloved of beauteous Hermia; / Why should not I, then, prosecute my right?

* prosecutable