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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 ]

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. ]

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. Wrong or improper pronunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

n. [ L. nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, fr. nuncius, nuntius, messenger: cf. F. nonciature, It. nunziatura. See Nuncio. ] The office of a nuncio. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praenunciatio, fr. praenunciare to announce beforehand. See Pre-, and Announce. ] The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as pronunciation; -- a common misspelling (written only). [ misspelling ] [ PJC ]

a. Of or pertaining to pronunciation; pronunciative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A proclamation or manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. See Pronounce. ] See Pronunciamento. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. pronunciation, L. pronunciatio. See Pronounce. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The mode of uttering words or sentences. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Rhet.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery. J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pronunciativus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to pronunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Uttering confidently; dogmatical. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a reciter. ] One who pronounces; a pronouncer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to pronunciation; that pronounces. [ 1913 Webster ]

[ L. quincuncialis, from quincunx. See Quincunx. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Having the form of a quincunx. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Bot.) Having the leaves of a pentamerous calyx or corolla so imbricated that two are exterior, two are interior, and the other has one edge exterior and one interior; as, quincuncial æstivation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Quincuncial phyllotaxy (Bot.), an arrangement of five leaves in a spiral, each leaf two fifths of a circle from the next. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In the manner or order of a quincunx. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. renonciation, L. renuntiatio ann announcement. See Renounce. ] 1. The act of renouncing. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Law) Formal declination to take out letters of administration, or to assume an office, privilege, or right. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Renouncement; disownment; disavowal; disavowment; disclaimer; rejection; abjuration; recantation; denial; abandonment; relinquishment. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. LL. renuntiatorius. ] Pertaining to renunciation; containing or declaring a renunciation; as, renunciatory vows. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of renouncing, or setting aside, one's own wishes, claims, etc.; self-sacrifice. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L., fr. semi half + uncia ounce. ] (Rom. Antiq.) A Roman coin equivalent to one twenty-fourth part of a Roman pound. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Unciae [ L. See Ounce a measure of weight. ] 1. (Rom. Antiq.) A twelfth part, as of the Roman as; an ounce. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Alg.) A numerical coefficient in any particular case of the binomial theorem. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. uncialis amounting to the twelfth part of a pound or a foot, from uncia the twelfth part of a pound or of a foot, an ounce, an inch: cf. F. oncial. See Inch a measure. ] Of, pertaining to, or designating, a certain style of letters used in ancient manuscripts, esp. in Greek and Latin manuscripts. The letters are somewhat rounded, and the upstrokes and downstrokes usually have a slight inclination. These letters were used as early as the 1st century b. c., and were seldom used after the 10th century a. d., being superseded by the cursive style. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. An uncial letter. [ 1913 Webster ]