KING JAMES BIBLE DICTIONARY

PRONOUNCE, verb transitive pronouns'. [Latin pronuncio; pro and nuncio.]

1. To speak; to utter articulately. The child is not able to pronounce words composed of difficult combinations of letters. Adults rarely learn to pronounce correctly a foreign language.

2. To utter formally, officially or solemnly. The court pronounced sentence of death on the criminal.

Then Baruch answered them, he pronounced all these words to me with his mouth. Jeremiah 36:7.

Sternly he pronounc'd

The rigid interdiction.

3. To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; as, to pronounce an oration.

4. To speak; to utter, in almost any manner.

5. To declare or affirm. He pronounced the book to be a libel; he pronounced the act to be a fraud.

PRONOUNCE, verb intransitive pronouns'. To speak; to make declaration; to utter an opinion.

How confidently so ever men pronounce of themselves--

PRONOUNCEABLE, adjective pronouns'able. That may be pronounced or uttered.

PRONOUN'CED, participle passive Spoken; uttered; declared solemnly.

PRONOUN'CER, noun One who utters or declares.