ANNOUNCE, verb transitive announs'. [Latin annuncio, to deliver a message, of ad and nuncio, to tell from nuncius, a messenger.] 1. To publish; to proclaim; to give notice, or first notice; as, the birth of Christ was announced by an angel. 2. To pronounce; to declare by judicial sentence.
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