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To declare publicly or solemnly; to proclaim formally. [Obs.] In whose presence did St. Peter nuncupate it Barrow.

All wickedness will be most odious." Sprat. He rendered himself odious to the Parliament. Clarendon.

ut a moment's warning. (b) To be abandoned, as an agreement or purpose; as, the bet was declared to be off. [Colloq.] -- To come off, To cut off, To fall off, To go off, etc. See under Come, Cut, Fall, Go, etc. -- To get off. (a) To utter; to discharge; as, to get off a joke.

est; as, to offer an opinion. With the infinitive as an objective: To make an offer; to declare one's willingness; as, he offered to help me.

ner of their impeachment they could not but conceive did oppugn the rights of Parliament. Clarendon.

is new fright, an order was made by both houses for disarming all the papists in England. Clarendon.

Performed in good or established order; well-regulated. "An orderly . . . march." Clarendon.

Shown; exhibited; declared; avowed; professed; apparent; -- often used as opposed to real or actual; as, an ostensible reason, motive, or aim. D. Ramsay.

To deprive of the benefit and protection of law; to declare to be an outlaw; to proscribe. Blackstone.

hairman overruled the point of order. His passion and animosity overruled his conscience. Clarendon. These [difficulties] I had habitually overruled. F. W. Newman.

Crossing in kind or disposition; perverse; adverse; opposing. "Overthwart humor." Clarendon.

r. And all my pains is sorted to no proof. Shak. The pains they had taken was very great. Clarendon. The labored earth your pains have sowed and tilled. Dryden.

ife or nature, by means of which a moral is drawn; as, the parables of Christ. Chaucer. Declare unto us the parable of the tares. Matt. xiii. 36.

. The houses had not given their commissioners authority in the least particle to recede. Clarendon.

e over the medals. Addison. Waller passed over five thousand horse and foot by Newbridge. Clarendon.

lace, without molestation, by land or by water. Caution in granting passports to Ireland. Clarendon.

The quality of being perfidious; perfidy. Clarendon.

The petulancy of our words." B. Jonson. Like pride in some, and like petulance in others. Clarendon. The lowering eye, the petulance, the frown. Cowper.

laration of the principles upon which a person, a sect, or a party proposes to stand; a declared policy or system; as, the Saybrook platform; a political platform. "The platform of Geneva." Hooker.

ible pretext; plausible manners; a plausible delusion. "Plausible and popular arguments." Clarendon.