Word Meanings - PSELLISM - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Indistinct pronunciation; stammering.

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• INDISTINCTION
  Want of distinction or distinguishableness; confusion; uncertainty; indiscrimination. The indistinction of many of the same name . . . hath made some doubt. Sir T. Browne. An indistinction of all persons, or equality of all orders, is far from being
• STAMMER
  To make involuntary stops in uttering syllables or words; to hesitate or falter in speaking; to speak with stops and diffivulty; to stutter. I would thou couldst stammer, that thou mightest pour this conclead man out of thy mouth, as wine comes
• INDISTINCTLY
  In an indistinct manner; not clearly; confusedly; dimly; as, certain ideas are indistinctly comprehended. In its sides it was bounded distinctly, but on its ends confusedly an indistinctly. Sir I. Newton.
• INDISTINCT
  1. Not distinct or distinguishable; not separate in such a manner as to be perceptible by itself; as, the indistinct parts of a substance. "Indistinct as water is in water." Shak. 2. Obscure to the mind or senses; not clear; not definite; confused;
• PRONUNCIATION
  The art of manner of uttering a discourse publicly with propriety and gracefulness; -- now called delivery. J. Q. Adams. (more info) 1. The act of uttering with articulation; the act of giving the proper sound and accent; utterance; as,
• STAMMERER
  One who stammers.
• INDISTINCTNESS
  The quality or condition of being indistinct; want of definiteness; dimness; confusion; as, the indistinctness of a picture, or of comprehension; indistinctness of vision.
• INDISTINCTIVE
  Having nothing distinctive; common. -- In`dis*tinc"tive*ness, n.
• INDISTINCTIBLE
  Indistinguishable. T. Warton.
• STAMMERING
  Apt to stammer; hesitating in speech; stuttering. -- Stam"mer*ing*ly, adv.
• CONTINENTAL PRONUNCIATION
  A method of pronouncing Latin and Greek in which the vowels have their more familiar Continental values, as in German and Italian, the consonants being pronounced mostly as in English. The stricter form of this method of pronouncing Latin approaches
• MISPRONUNCIATION
  Wrong or improper pronunciation.