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nuncupate

PRONUNCIATION:

MEANING:

verb tr.:

1. To solemnly pronounce.

2. To declare a will orally.

ETYMOLOGY:

captious, emancipate, From Latin nuncupare (to declare or dedicate), from nomen (name) + capere (to seize). Ultimately from the Indo-European root kap- (to grasp), which is also the root of captive, capsule, capable, capture, cable, chassis, occupy, deceive, caitiff percipient , and sashay . Earliest documented use: 1550.

USAGE:



Jeani Rector, ed.; What Fears Become; Imajin Books; 2011.



See more usage examples of “‘If you manage to get into print ahead of me ... my friends here,’ he nuncupated, ‘will come visit you and perform a little surgery on your hands absolutely free and with my compliments.’”Jeani Rector, ed.;; Imajin Books; 2011.See more usage examples of nuncupate in Vocabulary.com’s dictionary

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