[f. prec., or on analogy of vbs. so formed.]
1. To make known officially or publicly; to intimate, proclaim, declare, = ANNOUNCE 1.
a. 1536. Tindale, Supper of Lord, Wks. III. 255. ‘Preach the death of the Lord,’ for so much signifieth annunciate in this place, until he come.
1659. Hammond, On Ps. xcviii. 2. By God appointed to be annuntiated and proclaimed.
1705. Bp. Bull, Corrupt Ch. Rome, in Cath. Safeguards (1851), 547 (T.). Let my death be thus annunciated and shown forth till I come to judgment.
1851. Mrs. Browning, Casa Guidi Wind., 123. The cause Which at God’s signal, war-trumps newly blown Shall yet annuntiate to the world’s applause.
2. To proclaim or intimate as coming, ready, etc.
1652. Sparke, Prim. Devot. (1663), 445. What here the angel annunciateth, Isaiah long before prophesied.
1659. Pearson, Creed, 498. They who did annunciate unto the blessed Virgin the conception of the Saviour.
1883. J. Munro, in Gd. Words, May, 315/1. We come now to the use of electricity for annunciating.
