To utter articulately; to speak out or distinctly; to utter, as words or syllables; to speak with the proper sound and accent as, adults rarely learn to pronounce a foreign language correctly.

To utter officially or solemnly; to deliver, as a decree or sentence; as, to pronounce sentence of death.

To speak or utter rhetorically; to deliver; to recite; as, to pronounce an oration.

pronounce judgment on; "They labeled him unfit to work here"

Pronounce dead.

an expression for pronouncing a patient's death.