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enunciate, v.|ɪˈnʌnsɪeɪt, -ʃɪ-|
[f. L. ēnuntiāt- ppl. stem of ēnuntiāre (incorrectly enunciare), f. ē out + nuntiāre to announce, f. nuntius messenger.]
1. trans. To give definite expression to (a proposition, principle, theory, etc.); = enounce 1.
1623Cockeram, Enunciate, to declare. 1656tr. Hobbes' Elem. Philos. (1839) 204 Which also may more briefly be enunciated thus, velocity is the quantity of motion determined by time and line. a1691T. Barlow Rem. 553 The truths that may be enuntiated concerning him [Plato]. 1842Grove Corr. Phys. Forces 2 The theory consequent upon new facts..is generally enunciated by the discoverers themselves. 1853Marsden Early Purit. 220 The dogmas enunciated in the Lambeth articles. 1878Huxley Physiogr. 95 The same principle may be enunciated in another form.
b. Of words: To form, or serve as a statement of.
1859Mill Liberty (1865) 20/2 The words which enunciate a truth.
2. To state publicly; to proclaim.
1864Pusey Lect. Daniel Pref. 24 Moses enunciated as simple, undemonstrated truth, ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth’. 1875Manning Mission H. Ghost i. 3 It can therefore never err in enunciating or declaring the revealed knowledge which it possesses.
3. To utter, pronounce (articulate sounds). Also absol. = enounce 3.
1759Hart Vision of Death (R.), Each enunciates with a human tone. 1791Boswell Johnson an. 1744 note, Not..marked by any peculiar emphasis, but only..distinctly enunciated. 1873Browning Red Cott. Nt.-Cap 223 How distinct enunciating, how Plain dealing!
Hence eˈnunciated ppl. a.
1664H. More Myst. Iniq. 534 That Incongruity betwixt enunciated Falsity and the Minde and Things has no moral evil in it. 1817H. T. Colebrooke Algebra 266 Putting the enunciated divisor sixteen. 1835Whewell in Todhunter Acc. of Whewell's Writings (1876) II. 213 A distinction or resemblance in enunciated principle. |