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To cause to pass the lips; to utter; to pronounce; hence, to promise; to pledge; as, to pass sentence. Shak. Father, thy word is passed. Milton.

A character or vocal sign representing more than one sound, as read, which is pronounced red or rèd.

To deliver or pronounce; as, to preach a sermon.

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

One who pronounces; a pronouncer.

Of or pertaining to pronunciation; that pronounces.

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

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

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

The student who pronounces the salutatory oration at the annual Commencement or like exercises of a college, -- an honor commonly assigned to that member of the graduating class who ranks second in scholarship. [U.S.]

To repeat; to rehearse; to recite; to pronounce; as, to say a lesson. Of my instruction hast thou nothing bated In what thou hadst to say Shak. After which shall be said or sung the following hymn. Bk. of Com. Prayer.

In civil and admiralty law, the judgment of a court pronounced in a cause; in criminal and ecclesiastical courts, a judgment passed on a criminal by a court or judge; condemnation pronounced by a judgical tribunal; doom. In common law, the term is exclusively used to denote the judgment in criminal cases. Received the…

One who pronounced a sentence or condemnation.

ch to distinguish the Ephraimites from the Gileadites. The Ephraimites, not being able to pronounce sh, called the word sibboleth. See Judges xii. Without reprieve, adjudged to death, For want of well pronouncing shibboleth. Milton.

To pronounce with a hissing sound, like that of the letter s; to mark with a character indicating such pronunciation.

Not pronounced; having no sound; quiescent; as, e is silent in "fable."

played with singlesticks, in which he who first brings blood from his adversary's head is pronounced victor; backsword; cudgeling.

[Pronounced sloo.]

To pronounce indistinctly; as, to slur syllables.

To utter with the mouth; to pronounce; to utter articulately, as human beings. They sat down with him upn ground seven days and seven nights, and none spake a word unto him. Job. ii. 13.