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To give a pronunciation; to articulate; as, to pronounce faultlessly. Earle.

Pertaining to, or indicating, pronunciation; as, a pronouncing dictionary.

Enunciative. [R.]

A monk who had reserved goods and effects to himself, notwithstanding his renunciation of all at the time of profession.

The state of being proscribed; denunciation; interdiction; prohibition. Macaulay.

Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.

er being sounded like kw, except in some words in which the u is silent. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 249. Q is not found in Anglo-Saxon, cw being used instead of qu; as in cwic, quick; cwen, queen. The name (ku) is from the French ku, which is from the Latin name of the same letter; its form is from the Latin, which…

A quincuncial arrangement, as of the parts of a flower in æstivation. See Quincuncial, 2.

is a vocal consonant. It is sometimes called a semivowel, and a liquid. See Guide to Pronunciation, §§ 178, 179, and 250-254. "R is the dog's letter and hurreth in the sound." B. Jonson.

The act of rebelling; open and avowed renunciation of the authority of the government to which one owes obedience, and resistances to its officers and laws, either by levying war, or by aiding others to do so; an organized uprising of subjects for the purpose of coercing or overthrowing their lawful ruler or government…

To make renunciation. [Obs.] He of my sons who fails to make it good, By one rebellious act renounces to my blood. Dryden.

The act of disclaiming or rejecting; renunciation. Shak.

The withdrawing, or open renunciation, of a suit in court by the plaintiff, by which he forever lost his right of action. Blackstone.

The act of revolting; an uprising against legitimate authority; especially, a renunciation of allegiance and subjection to a government; rebellion; as, the revolt of a province of the Roman empire. Who first seduced them to that foul revolt Milton.

change in political organization, or in a government or constitution; the overthrow or renunciation of one government, and the substitution of another, by the governed. The violence of revolutions is generally proportioned to the degree of the maladministration which has produced them. Macaulay.

ng the opening more or less round in shape; rounded; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.

Modified by contraction of the lip opening; labialized; labial. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.

ech sound by contraction of the lip opening; labializing; labialization. See Guide to Pronunciation, § 11.

s silent, as in isle, débris. With the letter h it forms the digraph sh. See Guide to pronunciation, t\'c5 255-261.

A corrupt spelling and pronunciation of solder. Soft sawder, seductive praise; flattery; blarney. [Slang]