Pronounce

5 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, n.
     Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.] --Milton.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:



  Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. {Pronounced}; p.
     pr. & vb. n. {Pronounging}.] [F. prononcer, L. pronunciare;
     pro before, forth + nunciare, nuntiare, to announce. See
     {Announce}.]
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     1. To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to
        utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper
        sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a
        foreign language correctly.
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     2. To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree
        or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.
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              Sternly he pronounced
              The rigid interdiction.               --Milton.
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     3. To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as,
        to pronounce an oration.
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              Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it to
              you.                                  --Shak.
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     4. To declare or affirm; as, he pronounced the book to be a
        libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.
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              The God who hallowed thee and blessed,
              Pronouncing thee all good.            --Keble.
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     Syn: To deliver; utter; speak. See {Deliver}.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Pronounce \Pro*nounce"\, v. i.
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     1. To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce
        faultlessly. --Earle.
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     2. To make declaration; to utter on opinion; to speak with
        confidence. [R.] --Dr. H. More.
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  pronounce
       v 1: 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: {articulate},
             {enounce}, {sound out}, {enunciate}, {say}]
       2: pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"
          [syn: {label}, {judge}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  126 Moby Thesaurus words for "pronounce":
     act on, affirm, allege, announce, annunciate, argue, articulate,
     assert, assever, asseverate, aver, avouch, avow, bid, breathe,
     broadcast, call on, call the signals, call upon, charge, chime,
     chorus, come out with, command, commission, communicate, condemn,
     contend, convey, declare, declare roundly, decree, deliver,
     dictate, direct, disclose, doom, emit, enjoin, enunciate, express,
     find, find against, find for, fling off, formulate, give,
     give an order, give expression, give notice, give out with,
     give the word, give tongue, give utterance, give voice, have, hold,
     impart, insist, instruct, issue a command, issue a manifesto,
     issue a statement, issue a writ, judge, lay down, let out, lip,
     maintain, make a statement, make an announcement, make known,
     mandate, manifesto, ordain, order, order about, out with, pass,
     pass judgment, pass sentence, phonate, phrase, pour forth,
     predicate, present, proclaim, profess, promulgate,
     pronounce judgment, pronounce on, protest, publicize, publish,
     publish a manifesto, put, put forth, put in words, put it, put out,
     raise, report, return a verdict, rule, say, say the word, sentence,
     set down, set forth, sound, speak, speak out, speak up, stand for,
     stand on, state, submit, tell, throw off, utter, utter a judgment,
     verbalize, vocalize, voice, whisper, word