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A word used as the designation or appellation of a creature or thing, existing in fact or in thought; a substantive.

Of or pertaining to a noun. Verbs which in whole or in part have shed their old nounal coat. Earle.

To change (an adjective, verb, etc.) into a noun. Earle.

To renounce. [Obs.] "They abrenounce and cast them off." Latimer.

An adjective, or attribute. [R.] Coleridge.

rst notice of; to make known; to publish; to proclaim. Her [Q. Elizabeth's] arrival was announced through the country by a peal of cannon from the ramparts. Gilpin.

The act of announcing, or giving notice; that which announces; proclamation; publication.

One who announces.

wn in a solemn or official manner; to declare; to proclaim (especially an evil). [Obs.] Denouncing wrath to come. Milton. I denounce unto you this day, that ye shall surely perish. Deut. xxx. 18.

Solemn, official, or menacing announcement; denunciation. [Archaic] False is the reply of Cain, upon the denouncement of his curse. Sir T. Browne.

One who denounces, or declares, as a menace. Here comes the sad denouncer of my fate. Dryden.

To announce; to declare; to state, as a proposition or argument. Sir W. Hamilton.

Act of enouncing; that which is enounced.

To pronounce incorrectly.

Onion. [Obs.] Chaucer.

To announce beforehand. Coleridge.

A word used instead of a noun or name, to avoid the repetition of it. The personal pronouns in English are I, thou or you, he, she, it, we, ye, and they.

rds or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.

Capable of being pronounced.

Strongly marked; unequivocal; decided.