▪ I. announce, v.
(əˈnaʊns)
Also 5 anounce, adnounce.
[a. OFr. anonce-r, earlier anoncier, anuncier:—L. adnuntiā-re, f. ad to + nuntiāre to bear a message, f. nunti-us bringing news. See an- prefix 6.]
1. To make known as an official messenger; to deliver news; to make public or official intimation of, to proclaim (something of the nature of news). a. simply.
| 1485 Caxton Paris & V. (1868) 7 Sente his heraulds in France and Englond to anounce. 1638 Featly Lyndom. i. 207 The Jesuits and Seminarie Priests at Doway and Rhemes..have fraught their English translation of the Bible, with so many affected harsh-sounding, and uncouth words to English eares, as announce..euroclydon. a 1721 Prior Hymn of Callim. (J.) Who model nations, publish laws, announce Or life or death. 1771 Junius Lett. I. 259 Your re-appointment to a seat in the Cabinet was announced to the public. 1809 W. Irving Knickerb. 79 Announcing his determination of leading on his troops in person. 1860 Tyndall Glac. ii. §9. 272 He announces the fact, but gives no details. |
b. with subord. clause.
| 1483 Caxton Gold. Leg. 94/1, I adnounce and shewe to you that holy chirche shal haue peas. ― G. de la Tour I vj b, The angel which sayd and announced to them that he was rysen. 1857 Maurice Ep. St. John ix. 139 Their first duty was to announce that that Jesus..was both Lord and Christ. |
c. To make (a person) known as so-and-so; often refl.
| 1837 E. Howard Old Commodore II. xix. 184 Announcing himself as a magistrate made a considerable impression on the seamen. 1856 De Quincey Confess. in Wks. V. 150, I announced myself as a passenger ‘booked’ for that night's mail. 1888 Mrs. H. Ward R. Elsmere ii, He announced himself as safely installed at Oxford. 1891 Hardy Group of Noble Dames 125 She could not live without announcing herself to him as his mother. Ibid. 158 She..requested him to allow her to..announce him as having died of malignant ague. |
2. ellipt. To intimate the approach or presence of.
| 1761 Smollett Gil Blas (1802) II. iv. viii. 29, I stationed myself at the chamber door to announce and introduce the persons who arrived. 1802 M. Edgeworth Moral T. (1816) I. i. 4 Dinner was announced. 1845 Ford Handbk. Spain i. 59 Few take to their beds except to die and the doctor announces the undertaker. |
3. To make known, intimate to the senses (without words).
| 1808 Scott Marm. vi. xxv, Nor martial shout, nor minstrel tone, Announced their march. 1848 L. Hunt Jar of Honey x. 131 Faint streaks of light..announced the approach of the great luminary. 1860 Tyndall Glac. i. 124 A peal to the right announced the descent of an avalanche. |
4. To declare or make manifest to the mind.
| 1781 Gibbon Decl. & F. II. xxvii. 59 His feeble efforts announced his degenerate spirit. 1794 Sullivan View Nat. II. 102 The successive beds of bitumens that are found in the bowels of the earth, announce them to have been deposited slowly. 1827 Scott Highl. Widow I. 118 Gold buckles in his shoes, etc...announced him to be a domestic of trust and importance. |
¶ App. confused with anhaunce, q.v.
| a 1533 Frith Disput. Purg. (1829) 203 Behold, I pray you, whither my Lord of Rochester hath brought our Holy Father, in announcing his power so high. |
▪ II. † announce, n. Obs.
[f. announce v.; cf. annonce.]
1. = announcement.
| 1787 J. Nichols in Welsted Wks. p. xxvi, This friendly announce is somewhat premature. 1818 Lady Morgan Fl. Macarthy III. iii. 106 The announce of the judges' carriages..induced the whole party to rise. 1827 Blackw. Mag. XXI. 210/1 The baker..seemed to have been struck by catalepsy at my first announce. |
2. announce bill, a poster advertising a theatrical performance or the like.
| 1824 R. Humphreys in J. Decastro Memoirs 88 Here follows his announce bill for that night. 1866 M. Mackintosh Stage Reminiscences vi. 69 She [sc. Madame Vestris] then drove round to Fairbrother's, in Bow-street (the great playbill printer of those days), and ordered her ‘announce’ bills. |