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Enunciated

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.]

  1. 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.

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

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vb. (en-past of: enunciate)

Usage examples of "enunciated".

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.

In case the others were in less positive shape than he, he enunciated slowly and clearly so as to besure to be understood.