declare

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1. obsoletetransitiveTo make clear, explain, interpret.

   Then answered Peter and sayd to him: declare unto us thys parable.

   1526, [William Tyndale, transl.], The Newe Testamẽt […] (Tyndale Bible), [Worms, Germany: Peter Schöffer], →OCLC, Matthew

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   To declare this a little, vve muſt aſſume, that the Surfaces of all ſuch Bodies, […] are exactly ſmooth only in a popular, or at moſt in a Phyſical ſenſe, but not in a ſtrict and rigid ſenſe.

   1664, Robert Boyle, chapter III, in Experiments and Considerations Touching Colours. […], London: […] Henry Herringman […], →OCLC, part I, page 26

2. intransitivetransitiveTo assert or announce formally, officially, explicitly, or emphatically.

   declare war

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   He declared him innocent.

   declare bankruptcy

   declare victory

   declare independence

   declare an innings closed

   Synonyms: disclose, make known, announce, forerun, blare, disclose, herald, impart

3. transitiveTo inform government customs or taxation officials of goods one is importing or of income, expenses, or other circumstances affecting one's taxes.

   The prosecution has introduced evidence, including canceled checks, to show that the judge failed to declare part of his income.

   1984 April 2, Richard Woodbury, Anastasia Toufexis, “Law: The Trouble with Harry”, in Time

   Synonyms: disclose, make known, divulge

4. card gamesTo show one's cards in order to score.
5. intransitivegovernmentFor a constituency in an election to officially announce the result

   Houghton and Sunderland South was the first constituency to declare in the 2015 general election.

6. ball gamesThe decision of the captain to let the bowling side bat in test cricket to save time without being all out.

   He declared at 689-7.

7. transitivecomputingTo explicitly establish the existence of (a variable, function, etc.) without necessarily describing its content.

   The counter "i" was declared as an integer.

8. slanggrand strategy gamesTo declare war.

   France declared on me, I'm finished!

9. particularly EvangelicalismChristianityTo state that a thing shall happen or affirm a condition in the hopes of seeing it happen spiritually, in contrast to prayer which takes the form of a request.

   He prayed to God "please heal my sister", while she declared "I am healed in Jesus' name".