uttert (uter)

[ The portir with his pikis tho put him vttere, And warned him the wickett while the wacche durid. Richard the Redele , iii. 232. 2. Utterly. So utter empty of those excellencies That tame authority. Beau , and Fl . , King and No King, iv. 1. It utter excludes his former excuse of an allegory. Sandys , Travailes, p. 47. utterable (ut'er-a-bl), a . [ utter + -able .] Capable of being uttered, pronounced, or expre ed. He hath changed the ineffable name into a name utter able by man, and desirable by all the world. Jer. Taylor , Works (ed. 1835), I. 53. utterablene (ut'er-a-bl-nes), n. The character of being utterable. utter an cel (ut'er-ans), n. [ -ance .] 1. The act of uttering. (a) A putting forth; disposal by sale or otherwise; circulation. What of our comodities haue most vtterance there, and what prices will be giuen for them. Hakluyt's Voyages, I. 300. But the English have so ill utterance for their warm clothes in these hot countries. Sandys , Travailes, p. 95. (b) The act of sounding or expre ing with the voice; vocal expre ion; also, power of speaking; speech. Where so euer knowledge doth accompanie the witte, there best vtterance doth alwaies awaite vpon the tonge. Ascham, The Scholemaster, p. 29. They... began to speak with other tongues, as the Acts ii. 4. Spirit gave them utterance . Even as a man that in some trance hath seen More than his wondering utterance can unfold. Drayton, Idea, lvii. Steele, Grief A-la-Mode, iii. 1. 2. That which is uttered or conveyed by the voice; a word or words: as, the utterances of the pulpit. Her Charms are dumb, they want Utterance. I hear a sound of many languages, The utterance of nations now no more. Bryant, Earth. Their emotional utterances [those of the lower animals] are rich and various, and, when we once get the right clue to their interpretation, reveal a vast life of pleasure and pain, want and satisfaction. J. Sully , Sensation and Intuition, p. 15. Barrel-organ utterance, the involuntary repetition of a word or phrase just uttered by the speaker or another; echolalia. See also recurring utterances. - Recurring utterances. See recurring . - Scanning utterance. Same as syllabic utterance . - Staccato utterance. Same as syllabic utterance. - Syllabic utterance, a defect in speech consisting in an inability to enunciate as a whole a word of more than one syllable, in consequence of which each syllable must be sounded independently as a separate word.