dict_dl/en_MerriamWebster/nun_MW.json
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{
"nunciate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": one that proclaims : nuncio":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin nunci us, nuntius messenger, message + English -ate":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u0259n(t)s\u0113\u0259\u0307t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-135439",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nunciature":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a papal diplomatic mission headed by a nuncio":[],
": the office or period of office of a nuncio":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The nunciature told him in an email that the case was submitted to the Apostolic Administrator of Barquisimeto. \u2014 Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"The nunciature did not respond to a request from The Post for comment. \u2014 Ana Vanessa Herrero, Washington Post , 21 June 2022",
"The Holy See nunciature in Mexico said Archbishop Scicluna and Msgr. \u2014 Juan Montes, WSJ , 3 Mar. 2020",
"Lantheaume was prepared to testify that his predecessor in the nunciature had communicated Pope Benedict\u2019s sanctions to Cardinal McCarrick. \u2014 Robert P. George, WSJ , 30 Aug. 2018",
"Also of interest would be letters about those sanctions from the Vatican to the nunciature , from the Vatican to Cardinal Wuerl, or from a Vatican official to Archbishop Vigan\u00f2. \u2014 Robert P. George, WSJ , 30 Aug. 2018",
"The Vatican has yet to establish an embassy, called a nunciature , in the country. \u2014 Elizabeth Dias, Time , 13 Sep. 2017"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1608, in the meaning defined at sense 2":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian nunciatura , from nuncio":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"-ch\u0259r",
"-\u02cctu\u0307r",
"-\u02cctyu\u0307r",
"\u02c8n\u0259n(t)-s\u0113-\u0259-\u02ccchu\u0307r",
"\u02c8nu\u0307n(t)-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220708-084134",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nuncio":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": a papal legate of the highest rank permanently accredited to a civil government":[]
},
"examples":[
"Recent Examples on the Web",
"The man on the other end of the line identified himself as the papal nuncio . \u2014 Frank E. Lockwood, Arkansas Online , 30 May 2022",
"In 2016, Pope Francis appointed Russell as apostolic nuncio to Turkey and Turkmenistan. \u2014 Niraj Warikoo, Detroit Free Press , 23 May 2022",
"So have all the ambassadors in Kyiv except the one from Poland and the papal nuncio from the Vatican. \u2014 Waldemar Januszczak For The Times, Robb Report , 19 Apr. 2022",
"On Saturday, the Vatican announced that the Nicaraguan government had expelled the papal nuncio , Msgr. \u2014 Washington Post , 12 Mar. 2022",
"The nuncio asked him to describe those elements in a letter. \u2014 Paul Elie, The New Yorker , 20 Nov. 2020",
"The Vatican nuncio to Mexico, Archbishop Franco Coppola, posted the unsigned guidance on his Facebook page Sunday. \u2014 Nicole Winfield, chicagotribune.com , 2 Nov. 2020",
"The Vatican nuncio to Mexico, Archbishop Franco Coppola, posted the unsigned guidance on his Facebook page Sunday. \u2014 Fox News , 2 Nov. 2020",
"The Vatican nuncio to Mexico, Archbishop Franco Coppola, posted the unsigned guidance on his Facebook page Sunday. \u2014 The Salt Lake Tribune , 2 Nov. 2020"
],
"first_known_use":{
"1512, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Italian, from Latin nuntius messenger, message":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u0259n(t)-s\u0113-\u02cc\u014d",
"\u02c8nu\u0307n(t)-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-203244",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nuncle":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": uncle":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"by alteration (from misdivision of an uncle )":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u0259\u014b-k\u0259l"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-091318",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nuncupate":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": to declare (a will) publicly : proclaim":[
"how doth that will appear \u2026 in whose presence did he nuncupate it",
"\u2014 Isaac Barrow"
],
": to inscribe to by way of compliment : dedicate":[
"nuncupating my litany to your ladyship",
"\u2014 John Bastwick"
],
": to utter solemnly : pronounce":[
"they do here \u2026 nuncupate this deliberate vow",
"\u2014 Edmund Burke"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin nuncupatus , past participle of nuncupare to name, declare, dedicate, contraction of nomen capere , from nomen name + capere to take":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u0259\u014bky\u0259\u02ccp\u0101t"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-234815",
"type":[
"transitive verb"
]
},
"nuncupation":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": an oral will":[
"the dying seaman made a nuncupation in favor of his mother"
]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin nuncupation-, nuncupatio , from nuncupatus (past participle of nuncupare to name, declare) + -ion-, -io -ion":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-104706",
"type":[
"noun"
]
},
"nuncupative":{
"antonyms":[
"paper",
"written"
],
"definitions":{
": not written : oral":[
"a nuncupative will"
]
},
"examples":[
"the soldier left a nuncupative will that was witnessed by two of his comrades"
],
"first_known_use":{
"15th century, in the meaning defined above":""
},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Medieval Latin nuncupativus , from Late Latin, so-called, from Latin nuncupatus , past participle of nuncupare to name, probably ultimately from nomen name + capere to take \u2014 more at name , heave entry 1":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u0259n-kyu\u0307-\u02ccp\u0101-tiv",
"\u02c8n\u0259\u014b-",
"\u02c8n\u0259\u014b-ky\u0259-\u02ccp\u0101-tiv, n\u0259n-\u02c8ky\u00fc-p\u0259-tiv",
"\u02ccn\u0259n-\u02c8ky\u00fc-p\u0259-"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[
"oral",
"spoken",
"unwritten",
"verbal",
"viva voce",
"word-of-mouth"
],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220707-063907",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"nuncupatory":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": dedicatory":[],
": oral":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"probably from (assumed) New Latin nuncupatorius , from Medieval Latin, naming, from Latin nuncupatus (past participle of nuncupare to name, declare) + -orius , -ory":""
},
"pronounciation":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-180554",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"nundinal":{
"antonyms":[],
"definitions":{
": of or relating to a nundine":[]
},
"examples":[],
"first_known_use":{},
"history_and_etymology":{
"Latin nundinalis , from nundinae nundine + -alis -al":""
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u0259nd\u0259n\u1d4al"
],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"synonyms":[],
"time_of_retrieval":"20220706-131225",
"type":[
"adjective"
]
},
"nun":{
"type":[
"adjective",
"noun"
],
"definitions":{
": the 14th letter of the Hebrew alphabet \u2014 see Alphabet Table":[]
},
"pronounciation":[
"\u02c8n\u0259n",
"\u02c8nu\u0307n"
],
"synonyms":[],
"antonyms":[],
"synonym_discussion":"",
"examples":[],
"history_and_etymology":{
"Middle English, from Old English nunne , from Late Latin nonna":"Noun",
"Hebrew n\u016bn":"Noun"
},
"first_known_use":{
"before the 12th century, in the meaning defined above":"Noun",
"circa 1567, in the meaning defined above":"Noun"
},
"time_of_retrieval":"20220710-025704"
}
}