Pro*nounce" , n. Pronouncement; declaration; pronunciation. [Obs.]
Milton.
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" (?), 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.
Hear it pronounced