Crossword clues for enunciate
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Enunciate \E*nun"ci*ate\, v. i. To utter words or syllables articulately.
Enunciate \E*nun"ci*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enunciated; p. pr. & vb. n. Enunciating.] [L. enuntiatus, -ciatus, p. p. of enuntiare, -ciare. See Enounce.]
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To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel.
--Coleridge. To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
1620s, "declare, express," from Latin enunciatus, properly enuntiatus, past participle of enuntiare "speak out, say, express, assert; divulge, disclose, reveal, betray," from assimilated form of ex- "out" (see ex-) + nuntiare "to announce" (see nuncio). Or perhaps a back-formation from enunciation. Meaning "to articulate, pronounce" is from 1759. Related: Enunciated; enunciating.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 (context transitive English) To make a definite or systematic statement of. 2 To announce, proclaim. 3 (context transitive English) To articulate, pronounce. 4 (context intransitive English) To make sounds clearly.
WordNet
v. speak, pronounce, or utter in a certain way; "She pronounces French words in a funny way"; "I cannot say `zip wire'"; "Can the child sound out this complicated word?" [syn: pronounce, articulate, enounce, sound out, say]
express or state clearly [syn: articulate, vocalize, vocalise]
Usage examples of "enunciate".
Indeed when under the expansive influence of a sufficient quantity of malt extract or ancient brandy from the cellaret on his library desk he had sometimes been heard to enunciate the theory that there was very little difference between the people in jail and those who were not.
Two different theories, both enunciated during the Chief Justiceship of John Marshall, have been utilized to justify these results.
From a window opening upon a balcony overhead came the clear notes of a barytone voice enunciating the oldfashioned words of an English ballad, the refrain of which expressed hopeless separation.
Lina enunciated the words carefully so that there could be no mistaking what she was saying.
And we are convinced that if regard be had to the principles we have enunciated in devising, manufacturing, laying and maintaining submarine cables, this class of enterprise may prove as successful as it has hitherto been disastrous.
The Court then enunciated the principle that where a fine or imprisonment imposed on the contemnor is designed to coerce him to do what he has refused to do, the proceeding is one for civil contempt.
So, we see, the principal points of the opinion enunciated by the learned judge, and the principles therein laid down, can, with equal force, be applied to the non-justification of craniotomy, by which the life of a defenceless child is sacrificed to save the mother.
Lest they were unsure, I added in flawless Habiru, enunciating each word with chill precision.
Hazel the one consecutive sentence that Portunus had managed to enunciate.
It begins sufficiently well, but the author has hardly enunciated his preliminary apophthegms, when he conducts into an obscurity where we can hardly grope our way, and when we emerge from that, it is to be bewildered by his gorgeous but unsubstantial pictures of sagely perfection.
His view was the view of common sense, and he enunciated the barrenest convictions in a tone which would have suited profound originality.
Let us now consider the rules followed in classification, and the difficulties which are encountered on the view that classification either gives some unknown plan of creation, or is simply a scheme for enunciating general propositions and of placing together the forms most like each other.
No major-sport player had ever even orbited in close enough to hear the elisions and apical lapses of a mid-Southern accent in her oddly flat but resonant voice that sounded like someone enunciating very carefully inside a soundproof enclosure.
Indeed when under the expansive influence of a sufficient quantity of malt extract or ancient brandy from the cellaret on his library desk he had sometimes been heard to enunciate the theory that there was very little difference between the people in jail and those who were not.
The contralto was a young actress, determined to break into big time tri-d, who dutifully read through the material supplied, enunciating culinary words and displaying no curiosity as to the limitation of the audition.