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a. That may be announced or declared; declarable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Annunciated; p. pr. & vb. n. Annunciating. ] [ L. annuntiare. See Announce. ] To announce. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. Foretold; preannounced. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. annuntiatio: cf. F. annonciation. ] 1. The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) (a) The announcement of the incarnation, made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary. (b) The festival celebrated (March 25th) by the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The common white lily (Lilium candidum). So called because it is usually introduced by painters in pictures of the Annunciation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to annunciation; announcing. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. annuntiator. ] 1. One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. 1. 1 any of a group of powerful earth spirits or genii; servitors of the gods. [ Babylonian ]
Syn. -- Enuki [ WordNet 1.5 ]

def>A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continental method of Greek pronunciation is often called Erasmian. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Origin unknown. ] 1. A kind of riddle based upon some fanciful or fantastic resemblance between things quite unlike; a puzzling question, of which the answer is or involves a pun. [ 1913 Webster ]

Or pun ambiguous, or conundrum quaint. J. Philips. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A question to which only a conjectural answer can be made. [ 1913 Webster ]

Do you think life is long enough to let me speculate on conundrums like that? W. Black. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. denuntiatus, denunciatus, p. p. of denuntiare, -ciare. See Denounce. ] To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To denunciate this new work. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. denuntiatio, -ciatio. ] 1. Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Uttering bold denunciations of ecclesiastical error. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. denuntiativus, -ciativus, monitory. ] Same as Denunciatory. Farrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. denuntiator, -ciator, a police officer. ] One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being enunciated or expressed. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Enunciated p. pr. & vb. n. Enunciating ] [ L. enuntiatus, -ciatus, p. p. of enuntiare, -ciare. See Enounce. ] 1. To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To utter words or syllables articulately. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. enuntiatio, -ciatio. ] 1. The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

By way of interpretation and enunciation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every intelligible enunciation must be either true or false. A. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. enuntiativus, -ciativus. ] Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative. Ayliffe. -- E*nun"ci*a*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. enuntiator, enunciator. ] One who enunciates or proclaims. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Internuncio. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to an internuncio. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) Communicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body; -- said of the nervous system. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female messenger. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Internuncios [ L. internuntius; inter between + nuntius, nuncius, messenger: cf. It. internunzio. See Nuncio. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A messenger between two parties. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A representative, or chargé d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This title was formerly given also to the Austrian envoy at Constantinople. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or function of an internuncio. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] Internuncio. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Inunction. ] Anointed. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inunctio, fr. inungere, inunctum, to anoint. See 1st In-, and Unction. ] The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The lack of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inundans, p. pr. of inundare. ] Overflowing. [ R. ] Shenstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Inundated p. pr. & vb. n. Inundating. ] [ L. inundatus, p. p. of inundare to inundate; pref. in- in + undare to rise in waves, to overflow, fr. unda a wave. See Undulate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To cover with a flood; to overflow; to deluge; to flood; as, the river inundated the town. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To fill with an overflowing abundance or superfluity; as, the country was inundated with bills of credit.

Syn. -- To overflow; deluge; flood; overwhelm; submerge; drown. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inundatio: cf. F. inondation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of inundating, or the state of being inundated; an overflow; a flood; a rising and spreading of water over grounds. [ 1913 Webster ]

With inundation wide the deluge reigns,
Drowns the deep valleys, and o'erspreads the plains. Wilkie. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An overspreading of any kind; overflowing or superfluous abundance; a flood; a great influx; as, an inundation of tourists. [ 1913 Webster ]

To stop the inundation of her tears. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Void of understanding. [ Obs. ] Bp. Pearson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., fr. L. lamina a scale + unguis a nail. ] (Zool.) Same as Hyracoidea. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ or . [ From Loreto, a city in Italy famous for its Holy House, said to be that in which Jesus lived, brought by angels from Nazareth. ] (R. C. Ch.) Members of a congregation of nuns founded by Mrs. Mary Teresa Ball, near Dublin, Ireland, in 1822, and now spread over Ireland, India, Canada, and the United States. The nuns are called also Ladies of Loreto. They are engaged in teaching girls. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. Wrong or improper pronunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who believes that past changes in the structure of the earth have proceeded from cataclysms or causes more violent than are now operating; -- called also nonuniformitarian. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. 1. Not belonging to, or affiliated with, a trades union; as, a nonunion carpenter. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Not employing trade union members; not recognizing or favoring trades unions or trades-unionists; as, a nonunion contractor; a nonunion subcontractor. -- Non*un"ion*ism n. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. One who does not belong, or refuses to belong, to a trades union. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OE. nunne, AS. nunne, fr. L. nonna nun, nonnus monk; cf. Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;; of unknown origin. Cf. Nunnery. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A woman devoted to a religious life, who lives in a convent, under the three vows of poverty, chastity, and obedience. [ 1913 Webster ]

They holy time is quiet as a nun
Breathless with adoration. Wordsworth. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Zool.) (a) A white variety of domestic pigeons having a veil of feathers covering the head. (b) The smew. (c) The European blue titmouse. [ 1913 Webster ]

Gray nuns (R. C. Ch.), the members of a religious order established in Montreal in 1745, whence branches were introduced into the United States in 1853; -- so called from the color or their robe, and known in religion as Sisters of Charity of Montreal. --
Nun buoy. See under Buoy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n. [ PJC ]

n. The 25th letter of the Arabic alphabet, corresponding in pronunciation to n. [ PJC ]

n.; pl. -taks the pl. form Nunatakker is Swedish). [ Eskimo nunaettak. ] In Greenland, an insular hill or mountain surrounded by an ice sheet. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

‖ [ L. nunc now + dimittis thou lettest depart. ] (Eccl.) The song of Simeon (Luke ii. 29-32), used in the ritual of many churches. It begins with these words in the Vulgate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. nonechenche, for noneschenche, prop., a noon drink; none noon + schenchen, schenken, skinken, to pour, AS. scencan. See Noon, and Skink, v. i. ] A portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon. [ Written also noonshun. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who announces; a messenger; a nuncio. [ Obs. ] Hoole. [ 1913 Webster ]