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. Plenary inspiration (Theol.), that kind of inspiration which excludes all defect in the utterance of the inspired message. -- Verbal inspiration (Theol.), that kind of inspiration which extends to the very words and forms of expression of the divine message.

Rapid or incoherent talk, with indistinct utterance; gibberish. Swift.

A mocking utterance. -- Jeer"ing*ly, adv.

Fig: The general pitch or tone of a sentence or utterance. You fall at once into a lower key. Cowper. Key bed. Same as Key seat. -- Key bolt, a bolt which has a mortise near the end, and is secured by a cotter or wedge instead of a nut. Key bugle. See Kent bugle. -- Key of a position or country. (Mil.) See Key, 4. -…

A melody; any musical utterance. The throstle cock made eke his lay. Chaucer.

Prolonged, or relatively more prolonged, in utterance; -- said of vowels and syllables. See Short, a., 13, and Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 22, 30.

Sighing, suffocative panting, intercepted utterance, with a sense of pressure across the chest, occurring during sleep; the incubus; -- obsolete, except in the compound nightmare. I will ride thee o' nights like the mare. Shak.

The utterance of successive syllables, words, or sentences, on one unvaried key or line of pitch.

Repressing or obscure utterance.

§§ 20, 208); characterized by resonance in the nasal passage; as, a nasal vowel; a nasal utterance. Nasal bones (Anat.), two bones of the skull, in front of the frontals. -- Nasal index (Anat.), in the skull, the ratio of the transverse the base of the aperture to the nasion, which latter distance is taken as the sta…

e fifty-first Psalm, "Miserere mei," etc. Sir W. Scott. (b) Hence, a verse or saying, the utterance of which decides one's fate; a shibboleth. These words, "bread and cheese," were their neck verse or shibboleth to distinguish them; all pronouncing "broad and cause," being presently put to death. Fuller. -- Neck yoke.…

A musical sound; a tone; an utterance; a tune.

earness, strength, and smoothness; ringing and musical; -- said of the voice or manner of utterance. -- n.

A prophetic or ominous utterance. [R. & Obs.] Holland.

A word; an oral utterance. [Obs.]

A word; an oral utterance. [Obs.]

Of or pertaining to pessimism; characterized by pessimism; gloomy; foreboding. "Giving utterance to pessimistic doubt." Encyc. Brit.

The act or process by which articulate sounds are uttered; the utterance of articulate sounds; articulate speech.

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

The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as, the pronunciation of syllables of words; distinct or indistinct pronunciation.