[f. ARTICULATE v. + -ING1.]

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  1.  The action of jointing or joining together.

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1865.  Dickens, Mut. Fr., I. vii. You’ve no idea how small you’d come out, if I had the articulating of you.

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  2.  Distinct sounding or utterance.

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1609.  Douland, Ornithop. Microl., 2. Those Instruments which are commanded, either with the touching of the fingers, or articulating of the Keyes. Ibid., 89. No expressing of words, no articulating of syllables.

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  † 3.  The making of stipulations; stipulating. Obs.

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1649.  Selden, Laws of Eng., II. vi. (1739), 38. The Clergy took this Articulating of the Commons in snuff.

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