1. The act of enumerating, making separate mention, or recounting.
2. A detailed account, in which each thing is specially noticed.
Because almost every man we meet possesses these, we leave them out of our enumeration.
Paley. 3. (Rhet.) A recapitulation, in the peroration, of the heads of an argument.
Enumerative
(E*nu"mer*a*tive) a. [Cf. F. énumératif.] Counting, or reckoning up, one by one.
Enumerative of the variety of evils.
Jer. Taylor. Enumerator
(E*nu"mer*a`tor) n. One who enumerates.
Enunciable
(E*nun"ci*a*ble) a. Capable of being enunciated or expressed.
Enunciate
(E*nun"ci*ate) v. t. [imp. & p. p. Enunciated ; p. pr. & vb. n. Enunciating ] [L. enuntiatus, -
ciatus, p. p. of enuntiare, -ciare. See Enounce.]
1. To make a formal statement of; to announce; to proclaim; to declare, as a truth.
The terms in which he enunciates the great doctrines of the gospel.
Coleridge. 2. To make distinctly audible; to utter articulately; to pronounce; as, to enunciate a word distinctly.
Enunciate
(E*nun"ci*ate), v. i. To utter words or syllables articulately.
Enunciation
(E*nun`ci*a"tion) n. [L. enuntiatio, -ciatio.]
1. The act of enunciating, announcing, proclaiming, or making known; open attestation; declaration; as,
the enunciation of an important truth.
By way of interpretation and enunciation.
Jer. Taylor. 2. Mode of utterance or pronunciation, especially as regards fullness and distinctness or articulation; as,
to speak with a clear or impressive enunciation.
3. That which is enunciated or announced; words in which a proposition is expressed; an announcement; a
formal declaration; a statement.
Every intelligible enunciation must be either true or false.
A. Clarke. Enunciative
(E*nun"ci*a*tive) a. [L. enuntiativus, -ciativus.] Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation; declarative.
Ayliffe. — E*nun"ci*a*tive*ly, adv.
Enunciator
(E*nun"ci*a`tor) n. [L. enuntiator, enunciator.] One who enunciates or proclaims.
Enunciatory
(E*nun"ci*a*to*ry) a. Pertaining to, or containing, enunciation or utterance.
Enure
(En*ure") v. t. See Inure.
Enuresis
(||En`u*re"sis) n. [NL., fr. Gr. to urinate in; + urine.] (Med.) An involuntary discharge of urine; incontinence
of urine.
Envassal
(En*vas"sal) v. t. To make a vassal of. [Obs.]
Envault
(En*vault") v. t. To inclose in a vault; to entomb. [R.] Swift.
