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/ɑrtˈɪkjəlˌeɪt/ /ɑrtˈɪkjələt/ Listen

verb

Articulate v. t.

1.

To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.

2.

To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify. (Obs.)

3.

To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language. "To articulate a word."

4.

To express distinctly; to give utterance to. "Luther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church." "To... articulate the dumb, deep want of the people."

Articulate v. i. (past & past part. articulated; pres. part. articulating)

1.

To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.

2.

To treat or make terms. (Obs.)

3.

To join or be connected by articulation.

adjective

Articulate adj.

1.

Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. (Archaic)

2.

Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.

3.

Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words. "Total changes of party and articulate opinion."

noun

Articulate n. (Zool.) An animal of the subkingdom Articulata.

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... children, inconsistently abandoned upon roadsides, or as inconsistently treasured as limp and flabby superstitions in their desks. The chill wind from the Bay blowing in at the window seemed to rustle them into sad articulate appeal. I remember that when one of them was whisked from the window by a stronger gust than usual, and was attaining a circulation it had never known before, I ran a block or two to recover it. I was young then, and in an ...

— The Bell-Ringer of Angel's and Other Stories • Bret Harte

... the American population was, and is to this day, the only really articulate ingredient in its mental composition. And so it has had a monopoly in providing the American forms of thought. The other sections of peoples that have been annexed by or have come into this national synthesis are silent so far as any contribution to the national stock ...

— An Englishman Looks at the World • H. G. Wells

... fellow-creatures. "We find (under the torrid zone) certain wild animals, male and female, scattered through the country, black, livid, and all over scorched by the sun, bent to the earth which they dig and turn up with invincible perseverance. They have something like articulate utterance; and when they stand up on their feet, they exhibit a human face, and in ...

— Equinoctial Regions of America • Alexander von Humboldt

... he was immediately confronted by two heads—one that of Vetranio the senator, the other that of a glossy black kitten adorned with a collar of rubies, and half enveloped in its master's ample robes. Before the astonished noble could articulate a word, the man whispered in hoarse, hurried accents, 'I am Ulpius—dismiss your servants—I ...

— Antonina • Wilkie Collins

... sovereign: he is said one day to have conceived the sacrilegious desire to bring about a conflict between an ordinary bull and the Mnevis adored at Heliopolis. The gods, doubtless angered by his crimes, are recorded to have called into being a lamb with eight feet, which, suddenly breaking into articulate speech, predicted that Upper and Lower Egypt would be disgraced by the rule ...

— History Of Egypt, Chaldaea, Syria, Babylonia, and Assyria, Volume 7 (of 12) • G. Maspero

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