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Articulately   Listen
adverb
Articulately  adv.  
1.
After the manner, or in the form, of a joint.
2.
Article by article; in distinct particulars; in detail; definitely. "I had articulately set down in writing our points."
3.
With distinct utterance of the separate sounds.






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"Articulately" Quotes from Famous Books



... was sorry he was unable to promise himself the pleasure of participating in either. Enclosed was a signed note of the weight of the fish. Armed with this, Sir Bingo claimed his wine—triumphed in his judgment—swore louder and more articulately than ever he was known to utter any previous sounds, that this Tyrrel was a devilish honest fellow, and he trusted to be better acquainted with him; while the crestfallen Squire, privately cursing the stranger by all his gods, had no mode of silencing ...
— St. Ronan's Well • Sir Walter Scott

... chair nearer, where there could be no imagined need for raising the voice. Mordecai felt the action as a patient feels the gentleness that eases his pillow. He began to speak in a low tone, as if he were only thinking articulately, not ...
— Daniel Deronda • George Eliot

... of the week, the Commons having called their Eldest to the chair, and furnished him with young stronger-lunged assistants,—can speak articulately; and, in audible lamentable words, declare, as we said, that they are an inorganic body, longing to become organic. Letters arrive; but an inorganic body cannot open letters; they lie on the table unopened. The Eldest may at most procure ...
— The French Revolution • Thomas Carlyle

... be made permanent, and constitutions like these universal, there would never be any occasion for such discourses as the present one. No philosopher would seek to prove articulately that life is worth living, for the fact that it absolutely is so would vouch for itself, and the problem disappear in the vanishing of the question rather than in the coming of anything like a reply. But we are not magicians to make the optimistic temperament universal; and alongside of ...
— The Will to Believe - and Other Essays in Popular Philosophy • William James

... and the louder utterances or tempestuous howls of the wind; so that the stove becomes a microcosm of the aerial world. Occasionally there are strange combinations of sounds,—voices talking almost articulately within the hollow chest of iron,—insomuch that fancy beguiles me with the idea that my firewood must have grown in that infernal forest of lamentable trees which breathed their complaints to Dante. When the listener ...
— Fire Worship (From "Mosses From An Old Manse") • Nathaniel Hawthorne

... dark and the air was hot and close. Not a sound came to his throbbing cars. With characteristic irrepressibility he began to swear softly, but articulately. Proof that his profanity was mild—one might say genteel—came in an instant. A gruff voice, startlingly near at ...
— Truxton King - A Story of Graustark • George Barr McCutcheon

... something about being very well as he was, and then got himself into an arm-chair. He had shaken hands with Lily, trying as he did so to pronounce articulately a little speech which he had prepared for the occasion. "I have to congratulate you, Lily, and I hope with all my heart that you will be happy." The words were simple enough, and were not ill-chosen, but the poor young man never got them spoken. The ...
— The Small House at Allington • Anthony Trollope

... must first understand the signification of its terms, and then we must know something of the ways in which they may be combined into articulate forms of expression. The terms of speech are words; in order to speak coherently and articulately we must group words into sentences according to the laws of the tongue to which they belong. Similarly, every art has its terms, or "parts of speech," and its grammar, or the ways in which the terms are combined. The terms of painting are color and form, the terms of music are tones. Colors ...
— The Gate of Appreciation - Studies in the Relation of Art to Life • Carleton Noyes

... a singular power of expressing articulately that which would be mere mist without him, ...
— More Pages from a Journal • Mark Rutherford



Words linked to "Articulately" :   eloquently, inarticulately, ineloquently, articulate



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