n. [ LL. abrenuntiatio. See Abrenounce. ] Absolute renunciation or repudiation. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

An abrenunciation of that truth which he so long had professed, and still believed. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. That may be announced or declared; declarable. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Annunciated; p. pr. & vb. n. Annunciating. ] [ L. annuntiare. See Announce. ] To announce. [ 1913 Webster ]

p. p. & a. Foretold; preannounced. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. annuntiatio: cf. F. annonciation. ] 1. The act of announcing; announcement; proclamation; as, the annunciation of peace. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Eccl.) (a) The announcement of the incarnation, made by the angel Gabriel to the Virgin Mary. (b) The festival celebrated (March 25th) by the Church of England, of Rome, etc., in memory of the angel's announcement, on that day; Lady Day. [ 1913 Webster ]

(Bot.) The common white lily (Lilium candidum). So called because it is usually introduced by painters in pictures of the Annunciation. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. Pertaining to annunciation; announcing. [ R. ] Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. annuntiator. ] 1. One who announces. Specifically: An officer in the church of Constantinople, whose business it was to inform the people of the festivals to be celebrated. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An indicator (as in a hotel) which designates the room where attendance is wanted. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or containing, announcement; making known. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

def>A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches the Roman, the modified form the English, pronunciation. The Continental method of Greek pronunciation is often called Erasmian. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. [ L. denuntiatus, denunciatus, p. p. of denuntiare, -ciare. See Denounce. ] To denounce; to condemn publicly or solemnly. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To denunciate this new work. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. denuntiatio, -ciatio. ] 1. Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage. Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The act of denouncing; public menace or accusation; the act of inveighing against, stigmatizing, or publicly arraigning; arraignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That by which anything is denounced; threat of evil; public menace or accusation; arraignment. [ 1913 Webster ]

Uttering bold denunciations of ecclesiastical error. Motley. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. denuntiativus, -ciativus, monitory. ] Same as Denunciatory. Farrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. denuntiator, -ciator, a police officer. ] One who denounces, publishes, or proclaims, especially intended or coming evil; one who threatens or accuses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Characterized by or containing a denunciation; minatory; accusing; threatening; as, severe and denunciatory language. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Capable of being enunciated or expressed. [ 1913 Webster ]

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. [ 1913 Webster ]

The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel. Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To utter words or syllables articulately. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. enuntiatio, -ciatio. ] 1. The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as, the enunciation of an important truth. [ 1913 Webster ]

By way of interpretation and enunciation. Jer. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as, to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a formal declaration; a statement. [ 1913 Webster ]

Every intelligible enunciation must be either true or false. A. Clarke. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. enuntiativus, -ciativus. ] Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative. Ayliffe. -- E*nun"ci*a*tive*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. enuntiator, enunciator. ] One who enunciates or proclaims. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Internuncio. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to an internuncio. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Physiol.) Communicating or transmitting impressions between different parts of the body; -- said of the nervous system. Carpenter. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A female messenger. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Internuncios [ L. internuntius; inter between + nuntius, nuncius, messenger: cf. It. internunzio. See Nuncio. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A messenger between two parties. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. A representative, or chargé d'affaires, of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government, ranking next below a nuncio. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ This title was formerly given also to the Austrian envoy at Constantinople. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The office or function of an internuncio. Richardson. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ L. ] Internuncio. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Inunction. ] Anointed. [ Obs. ] Cockeram. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. inunctio, fr. inungere, inunctum, to anoint. See 1st In-, and Unction. ] The act of anointing, or the state of being anointed; unction; specifically (Med.), the rubbing of ointments into the pores of the skin, by which medicinal agents contained in them, such as mercury, iodide of potash, etc., are absorbed. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The lack of unctuosity; freedom from greasiness or oiliness; as, the inunctuosity of porcelain clay. Kirwan. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Wrong or improper pronunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ L. nunc now + dimittis thou lettest depart. ] (Eccl.) The song of Simeon (Luke ii. 29-32), used in the ritual of many churches. It begins with these words in the Vulgate. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ OE. nonechenche, for noneschenche, prop., a noon drink; none noon + schenchen, schenken, skinken, to pour, AS. scencan. See Noon, and Skink, v. i. ] A portion of food taken at or after noon, usually between full meals; a luncheon. [ Written also noonshun. ] Hudibras. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who announces; a messenger; a nuncio. [ Obs. ] Hoole. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. nunciare, nuntiare, to announce, report, fr. nuncius, nuntius, messenger: cf. F. nonciature, It. nunziatura. See Nuncio. ] The office of a nuncio. Clarendon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Nuncios [ It. nunzio, nuncio, fr. L. nuncius, nuntius, messenger; perh. akin to novus new, E. new, and thus, one who brings news. Cf. Announce. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. A messenger. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The permanent official representative of the pope at a foreign court or seat of government. Distinguished from a legate a latere, whose mission is temporary in its nature, or for some special purpose. Nuncios are of higher rank than internuncios. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n.; pl. Nuncii [ L. ] (Roman & Old Eng. Law) (a) A messenger. (b) The information communicated. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. nuncupatus, p. p. of nuncupare to nuncupate, prob. fr. nomen name + capere to take. ] 1. To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it? Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To dedicate by declaration; to inscribe; as, to nuncupate a book. [ Obs. ] Evelyn. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. nuncupatio. ] The act of nuncupating. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. nuncupativus nominal: cf. F. nuncupatif. ] 1. Publicly or solemnly declaratory. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Nominal; existing only in name. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Oral; not written. [ 1913 Webster ]

Nuncupative will or
Nuncupative testament, a will or testament made by word of mouth only, before witnesses, as by a soldier or seaman, and depending on oral testimony for proof. Blackstone. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Nuncupative; oral. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. praenunciatio, fr. praenunciare to announce beforehand. See Pre-, and Announce. ] The act of announcing or proclaiming beforehand. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. praenuncius. ] Announcing beforehand; presaging. [ Obs. ] Blount. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to pronunciation; pronunciative. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A proclamation or manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ Sp. See Pronounce. ] See Pronunciamento. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. pronunciation, L. pronunciatio. See Pronounce. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The mode of uttering words or sentences. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Rhet.) The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery. J. Q. Adams. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. pronunciativus. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. Of or pertaining to pronunciation. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Uttering confidently; dogmatical. [ Obs. ] Bacon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., a reciter. ] One who pronounces; a pronouncer. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to pronunciation; that pronounces. [ 1913 Webster ]