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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.

The act of prolating or pronouncing; utterance; pronunciation. [Obs.] Ray.

The application of an adjective to a noun in anticipation, or to denote the result, of the action of the verb; as, to strike one dumb.

Belonging to, or partaking of the nature of, a pronoun.

To give the effect of a pronoun to; as, to pronominalize the substantives person, people, etc. Early.

A proclamation or manifesto; a formal announcement or declaration.

One who pronounces; a pronouncer.

Of or pertaining to pronunciation; that pronounces.

tary (Bot.), a nectary separate from the petals and other parts of the flower. -- Proper noun (Gram.), a name belonging to an individual, by which it is distinguished from others of the same class; -- opposed to Ant: common noun; as, John, Boston, America. -- Proper perianth or involucre (Bot.), that which incloses o…

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.

put 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.

egree; having some resemblance to; qualified; -- used as an adjective, or a prefix with a noun or an adjective; as, a quasi contract, an implied contract, an obligation which has arisen from some act, as if from a contract; a quasi corporation, a body that has some, but not all, of the peculiar attributes of a corporat…

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

her 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.

Reflexive; -- applied to pronouns and verbs, but sometimes limited to such pronouns as express mutual action.

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