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a common interest; circulated, or intended for circulation; as, a circular letter. A proclamation of Henry III., . . . doubtless circular throughout England. Hallam.

A great outcry or vociferation; loud and continued shouting or exclamation. Shak.

Worthy of condemnation; blamable; culpable.

coast, of the Bay of Bengal. Coromandel gooseberry. See Carambola. -- Coromandel wood, Calamander wood.

One who cries; one who makes proclamation. Specifically, an officer who proclams the orders or directions of a court, or who gives public notice by loud proclamation; as, a town-crier. He openeth his mouth like a crier. Ecclus. xx. 15.

To make oral and public proclamation of; to declare publicly; to notify or advertise by outcry, especially things lost or found, goods to be sold, ets.; as, to cry goods, etc. Love is lost, and thus she cries him. Crashaw.

To defend by declamation; to advocate loudly. [Obs.] "Declaims his cause." South.

cing; explicit asserting; undisguised token of a ground or side taken on any subject; proclamation; exposition; as, the declaration of an opinion; a declaration of war, etc.

Making declaration, proclamation, or publication; explanatory; assertive; declaratory. "Declarative laws." Baker. The "vox populi," so declarative on the same side. Swift.

Proclamation; announcement; a publishing. [Obs.] Public . . . denunciation of banns before marriage. Bp. Hall.

Blamable. [R.]

In Canada, a legal holiday, July lst, being the anniversary of the proclamation of the formation of the Dominion in 1867.

en; executed; issued; made public; -- used chiefly in the clause giving the date of a proclamation or public act.

Foolish utterance; drivel. The sapless dotages of old Paris and Salamanca. Milton.

s, takes cognizance of matters relating to honor, arms, and pedigree, and directs the proclamation of peace and war. The court of chivalry was formerly under his jurisdiction, and he is still the head of the herald's office or college of arms.

To give an echo; to resound; to be sounded back; as, the hall echoed with acclamations. "Echoing noise." Blackmore.

A mark (!) used to indicate an exclamation. G. Brown.

An animated or passionate exclamation. The feelings by the ecphonesis are very various. Gibbs.

A public command or ordinance by the sovereign power; the proclamation of a law made by an absolute authority, as if by the very act of announcement; a decree; as, the edicts of the Roman emperors; the edicts of the French monarch. It stands as an edict in destiny. Shak. Edict of Nantes (French Hist.), an edict issued…

A salamander, esp. the European smooth newt (Triton punctatus).