英:['nʌŋkjʊˌpeɪt]
美:['nʌŋkjʊˌpeɪt]
英:['nʌŋkjʊˌpeɪt]
美:['nʌŋkjʊˌpeɪt]
transitive verb
to inscribe to by way of compliment : dedicate
nuncupating my litany to your ladyship—John Bastwick
to utter solemnly : pronounce
they do here … nuncupate this deliberate vow—Edmund Burke
to declare (a will) publicly : proclaim
how doth that will appear … in whose presence did he nuncupate it—Isaac Barrow
Latin nuncupatus, past participle of nuncupare to name, declare, dedicate, contraction of nomen capere, from nomen name + capere to take