v. [f. L. ēnuntiāt- ppl. stem of ēnuntiāre (incorrectly enunciare), f. ē out + nuntiāre to announce, f. nuntius messenger.]
1. trans. To give definite expression to (a proposition, principle, theory, etc.); = ENOUNCE 1.
1623. Cockeram, Enunciate, to declare.
1656. trans. Hobbes’ Elem. Philos. (1839), 204. Which also may more briefly be enunciated thus, velocity is the quantity of motion determined by time and line.
a. 1691. T. Barlow, Rem., 553. The truths that may be enuntiated concerning him [Plato].
1842. Grove, Corr. Phys. Forces (1850), 2. The theory consequent upon new facts … is generally enunciated by the discoverers themselves.
1853. Marsden, Early Purit., 220. The dogmas enunciated in the Lambeth articles.
1878. Huxley, Physiogr., 95. The same principle may be enunciated in another form.
b. Of words: To form, or serve as a statement of.
1859. Mill, Liberty (1865), 20/2. The words which enunciate a truth.
2. To state publicly; to proclaim.
1864. Pusey, Lect. Daniel, Pref. 24. Moses enunciated as simple, undemonstrated truth, ‘In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth.’
1875. Manning, Mission H. Ghost, i. 3. It can therefore never err in enunciating or declaring the revealed knowledge which it possesses.
3. To utter, pronounce (articulate sounds). Also absol. = ENOUNCE 3.
1767. [W. Harte], Amaranth, 79, Vision of Death (R.). Each enunciates with a human tone.
1791. Boswell, Johnson, an. 1744, note. Not … marked by any peculiar emphasis, but only … distinctly enunciated.
1873. Browning, Red Cott. Nt.-cap, 223. How distinct enunciating, how Plain dealing!
Hence Enunciated ppl. a.
1664. H. More, Myst. Iniq., 533. That Incongruity betwixt enunciated Falsity and the Minde and Things has no moral evil in it.
1817. H. T. Colebrooke, Algebra, 266. Putting the enunciated divisor sixteen.
1835. Whewell, in Todhunter, Acc. of Whewell’s Writings (1876), II. 213. A distinction or resemblance in enunciated principle.
