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That which is proclaimed, publicly announced, or officially declared; a published ordinance; as, the proclamation of a king; a Thanksgiving proclamation.

To utter; to pronounce. [Obs.] "Foun-der-ed; prolate it right." B. Jonson.

A proclamation or manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration.

One who pronounces; a pronouncer.

Of or pertaining to pronunciation; that pronounces.

One inspired or instructed by God to speak in his name, or announce future events, as, Moses, Elijah, etc.

To denounce and condemn; to interdict; to prohibit; as, the Puritans proscribed theaters. The Arian doctrines were proscribed and anathematized in the famous Council of Nice. Waterland.

One who, or that which, proscribes, denounces, or prohibits.

ut about (Naut.), to turn, or change the course of, as a ship. -- To put away. (a) To renounce; to discard; to expel. (b) To divorce. -- To put back. (a) To push or thrust backwards; hence, to hinder; to delay. (b) To refuse; to deny. Coming from thee, I could not put him back. Shak.

to make (a curve) sharper; as, to quicken the sheer, that is, to make its curve more pronounced.

er 112 or 100 pounds, according to the scale used. Cf. Cental. [Sometimes written and pronounced kentle.]

To renounce, and resist by force, the authority of the ruler or government to which one owes obedience. See Rebellion. The murmur and the churl's rebelling. Chaucer. Ye have builded you an altar, that ye might rebel this day against the Lord. Josh. xxii. 16.

To repeat, pronounce, or rehearse, as before an audience, something prepared or committed to memory; to rehearse a lesson learned.

To give up; to renounce a claim to; resign; as, to relinquish a debt.

To deney; to reject; to renounce. [Obs.] For he made every man reneye his law. Chaucer.

To bring back, as an answer; to announce in return; to relate, as what has been discovered by a person sent to examine, explore, or investigate; as, a messenger reports to his employer what he has seen or ascertained; the committee reported progress. There is no man that may reporten all. Chaucer.

To cast off; to disavow; to have nothing to do with; to renounce; to reject. Servitude is to be repudiated with greater care. Prynne.

Hence, to be faithless; to desert one party or leader for another; especially, to renounce allegiance or subjection; to rise against a government; to rebel. Our discontented counties do revolt. Shak. Plant those that have revolted in the van. Shak.

become of higher value; to increase in price. Bullion is risen to six shillings . . . the ounce. Locke.

In Japan, under the feudal system, a samurai who had renounced his clan or who had been discharged or ostracized and had become a wanderer without a lord; an outcast; an outlaw.