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Articulate   /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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"Articulate" Quotes from Famous Books



... and just as they approached the house Marian saw a little figure wandering about on the moor, and which suddenly sprang toward her with an articulate cry of joy! It was Miriam, who threw herself upon Marian with such earnestness of welcome that she did not notice Thurston, who now raised his hat slightly from his head, with a slight ...
— The Missing Bride • Mrs. E. D. E. N. Southworth
... sources. Meanwhile competent and thoughtful men saw well that the sullen discontent of the peasantry continued, in Lord Bacon's phrase, to threaten "the might and manhood of the kingdom.'' It had existed since the beginning of the Napoleonic wars, and had become more articulate with the spread of education. We shall see a consciousness of its presence rehected in the minds of statesmen and politicians as we briefly examine the later phase of the movement. This found expression in the clauses against enclosure introduced by Lord Beaconsheld in 1876, and gave ...
— Project Gutenberg Encyclopedia
... them, apparently, the clear and childlike power of seeing the cruelty which encompasses them. Gorky is a tramp, a man of the people, and also a critic, and a bitter one. In the West poor men, when they become articulate in literature, are always sentimentalists ...
— Creatures That Once Were Men • Maxim Gorky
... powers, two promises, two silences Closed in this cry, closed in these thousand leaves Articulate. This sudden hour retrieves The purpose of the past, Separate, apart—embraced, ...
— Later Poems • Alice Meynell
... tell, among that Earthen Lot Some could articulate, while others not: And suddenly one more impatient cried— "Who is the Potter, ...
— Rubaiyat of Omar Khayyam • Omar Khayyam


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