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.]
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.
2. To utter officially or solemnly; to
deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of
death.
Sternly he pronounced
The rigid interdiction.
Milton.
3. To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver;
to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.
Speak the speech, I pray you, as I pronounced it
to you.
Shak.
4. To declare or affirm; as, he
pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act
to be a fraud.
The God who hallowed thee and blessed,
Pronouncing thee all good.
Keble.
Syn. -- To deliver; utter; speak. See Deliver.
Pro*nounce", v. i.
1. To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as,
to pronounce faultlessly. Earle.
2. To make declaration; to utter on opinion;
to speak with confidence. [R.] Dr. H. More.
Pro*nounce", n. Pronouncement;
declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.] Milton.
