Word: utter Part of Speech: verb Etymology: PIE word *úd From Middle English outren, utteren (“to display for sale; to market; to sell; to say, speak; to put into words, express, tell; to make known, reveal”), partly: * from outre, utter (adjective, adverb) (see etymology 1 and etymology 3) + -en (suffix forming the infinitives of verbs); and * from Middle Dutch uteren (“to announce, make known”) (modern Dutch uiteren); or from Middle Low German üteren, ütern (“to demonstrate, show; to speak; to sell; etc.”) (modern Low German ütern), from Old Dutch or Old Saxon ūtan, probably from Proto-West Germanic *ūtanā (“from outside or without; outside of”). Compare Middle High German ūzeren, whence German äußern (“to express, say, utter”)) Pronunciation: /ˈʌtə/, [ˈɐtə], /ˈʌtəɹ/, [ˈʌɾɝ] 1. Senses relating to expressing sounds, etc., or disclosing something Labels: transitive Example: Don’t you utter another word! Example: I utter my langage or my voyce Ie profere, prime cõiuga. After your audyence utter your langage: Selon voſtre audiẽce profere; voſtre langaige. 2. Senses relating to expressing sounds, etc., or disclosing something Labels: transitive Example: Theeſe woords, vplifting both his hands, he to Iuppiter vttred. Example: VVhom ſhe all careleſſe of his griefe conſtrayned / to vtter forth th' anguiſh of his hart: […] 3. Senses relating to expressing sounds, etc., or disclosing something Labels: reflexive, transitive Example: [N]ovv and then nature is a fault, and this good gueſt of ours takes ſoyle in an unperfect body, and ſo is ſlackned from ſhevving her vvonders, like an excellent Muſician vvhich cannot utter himſelf upon a defective inſtrument. Example: [A]t present several of our men of the town, and particularly those who have been polished in France, make use of the most coarse uncivilized words in our language, and utter themselves often in such a manner as a clown would blush to hear. 4. Senses relating to expressing sounds, etc., or disclosing something Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Sally’s car uttered a hideous shriek when she applied the brakes. 5. Senses relating to expressing sounds, etc., or disclosing something Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: He that vttereth my counſayle ones I wyll neuer truſte hym whyle I lyue: […] Example: Silanus the Sooth-ſayer, vvho had vttered Xenophons purpoſe, vvas hereby ſtaied from out-running his fellovves, and driuen to abide vvith his vvealth among poore men, longer than ſtood vvith his good liking. 6. Senses relating to expressing sounds, etc., or disclosing something Labels: also, obsolete, reflexive, transitive Example: [W]hẽ the vnclene ſpritꝭ ſawe him⸝ they fell doune before him⸝ and cryed ſayinge: thou arte the ſonne of God: And he ſtreyghtly charged thẽ that they ſhulde not vtter him. Example: And Joſeph coude no longer refrayne before all them that ſtode about him⸝ but commaunded that they ſhuld goo all out from him⸝ and that there ſhuld be no man with him, whyle he vttred him ſelfe [i.e., disclosed his true identity] vnto his brethern. 7. Senses relating to expressing sounds, etc., or disclosing something Labels: also, obsolete, reflexive, transitive Example: [H]e [Jesus] ſhewed and vſed hymſelfe the moſte loweſt and meaneſte of al creatures, yet dyd he hyde within hym a ſecrete power of the nature of the godhed, which thã [than (i.e., then)] ⁊ neuer afore vttred it ſelfe, whan the grayne of his bodye was bruiſed on the croſſe: ⁊ was in deathe (as it were) burried within the grounde. Example: […] Iuno, the Princeſſe, / Theare the pate, in digging, of an horſe intractabil vttred. 8. Senses relating to expressing sounds, etc., or disclosing something Labels: intransitive Example: The Souereyne and vnutterable God, is the Originall of all things; next vnto vvhom is his Prouidence as a ſecond God, vvho giueth the lavv aſvvell for the temporall as for the eternall life. And furthermore, there is a third ſubſtance as a ſecond Vnderſtanding, vvhich is the keeper of the ſayd eternall Lavve. The higheſt God commaundeth, the ſecond ordereth, and the third vttereth or publiſheth. Example: Give me the liberty to know, to utter, and to argue freely according to conſcience, above all liberties. 9. Senses relating to expressing sounds, etc., or disclosing something Labels: intransitive Example: [Y]ea many gods, / Had voices more than all the winds, with power / To exhilarate the spirit, and to soothe, / Through every clime, the heart of human kind. / While this was uttering, strange as it may seem, / I wondered not, although I plainly saw / The one to be a stone, the other a shell; […] 10. Senses relating to issuing something. Labels: archaic, rare, transitive Example: [Y]ᵉ same [the book] was well vtteryd by yᵉ printar, & well lyked of in yᵉ comon weale, […] 11. Senses relating to issuing something. Labels: transitive Example: […] Her Maiestie now vnderstandynge, that there are sithens that tyme certayne other forrayne peeces of golde, of the like quantitie and fashion (although of lesse value) lyke to an Englyshe Angell, brought hyther, and here vttered and payde for ten shyllynges of syluer, beyng for they lacke of wayght, and for the basenesse of the allay, not worth. vii. shillinges, to the great deceite and losse of the subiectes of this her Realme: […] her good subiects may eyther vtterly forbeare to receyue any such forrayne Angels, or els to take them accordyng to theyr waight as bullion, and to bryng them to her Maiesties Mynte, where they shall haue redy money in golde or syluer at theyr pleasure, accordyng to the iust value thereof. Example: […] Memory, which laying by, preſeruing and imprinting in it ſelfe al the Images and formes of viſible & intelligible things, could not vtter them in time conuenient and diſpoſe them to the tongue and penne, vnleſſe it had ſo ordered, and oftentimes recounted them, […] 12. Senses relating to issuing something. Labels: figuratively, transitive Example: Centaure, hovv our iudgements vvere impos'd on by theſe adulterate knights! / Cen[taure]. Nay, madame, Mavis vvas more deceiu'd then vve, 'tvvas her commendation vtter'd 'hem in the colledge. Example: [T]he great bards / Of Greece, of Rome, and mine own master land, / […] / Men who have forged gods—uttered—made them pass: […] 13. Senses relating to issuing something. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: [T]he mixt earth, vvhich vtters VVhinns, Briars, and a vvorld of ſuch like vnnatural and baſtardly Iſſues. 14. Senses relating to issuing something. Labels: obsolete, transitive Example: […] certayne Merchants […] obteyned licence ſafely to arriue here in Ireland with their wares, and to vtter the ſame. Example: Such mortall drugs I haue, but Mantuas lavve / Is death to any he that vtters them. 15. Senses relating to issuing something. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive Example: [Y]ou are […] compelled, during the whole morning, to undergo that savage jargon of yells, brays, and screams, familiarly, but feebly, termed, "the Cries of London"— […] your utter incapability of ever arriving at the slightest smattering in any of the infernal dialects in which their goods are uttered, and which they have palpably invented for the sole purpose of guarding against the smallest risk of being, by any accident, understood;—and thus is a new Misery struck out for you, […] 16. Senses relating to issuing something. Labels: obsolete, rare, transitive Example: He had alſo ſet a prieſt of his and a ſeculer ſeruaunt of his beſyde to by [buy] many of the ſame ſuyte [of books], & double and treble of one ſorte, whiche were by thẽ [them] vttred to diuers yonge ſcholers ſuch as thei founde properly witted, feately lerned, and newfangly mynded. 17. Senses relating to issuing something. Labels: dialectal, transitive Example: God proſper you, to the uttering all hollovv Harts of England. Example: As fier being encloſed in a ſtraite place, wil by force vtter his flãme, […] ſo thys cãcard crocodrile, ⁊ ſubtile ſerpent, could not lõg lurke in malicious hartes, nor venemous ſtomackes, but in cõcluſion ſhe muſt (according to her nature) apere ⁊ ſhew her ſelf. 18. Senses relating to issuing something. Labels: intransitive, obsolete Example: This crockery is popular and utters well.