ARTICULATE

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. [Archaic] Bacon.

Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.

Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words. Total changes of party and articulate opinion. Carlyle.

An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.

To treat or make terms. [Obs.] Shak.

To join or be connected by articulation.

To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.

To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify. [Obs.]

To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language. "To articulate a word." Ray.

To express distinctly; to give utterance to. Luther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church. Bibliotheca Sacra. To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people. Carlyle.