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▪ I. † inarticuˈlation1 Obs. [f. in-2 + articulation: cf. inarticulate v.] The jointing of one thing into another; = enarthrosis.
1578Banister Hist. Man. i. 24 Certaine cauities..of the three neither most ribbes seruyng also to their inarticulation. 1616Surfl. & Markh. Country Farme 472 For the better perfecting of this inarticulation, there are two edges or brimmes, that so they may the better ioyne together. 1634T. Johnson Parey's Chirurg. vi. xlii. (1678) 165 Enarthrosis or Inarticulation is a kind of Dearticulation, in which a deep cavity receives a thick and long head. ▪ II. inarticuˈlation2 rare. [in-3: cf. inarticulate a.] Absence of distinct articulation; inarticulate utterance.
1765Franklin Lett. Wks. 1887 III. 397, I might have mentioned inarticulation among the defects in common speech that are assumed as beauties in modern singing. a1773Chesterfield (T.), The oracles meaned to be obscure; but then it was by the ambiguity of the expression, and not by the inarticulation of the words. |