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Declared Meaning and Definition from WordNet (r) 2.0
    declared adj
  1. made known or openly avowed; "their declared and their covert objectives"; "a declared liberal" [ant: undeclared]
  2. declared as fact; explicitly stated [syn: stated]
Declared Meaning and Definition from Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)
    Declare \De*clare"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Declared; p. pr. & vb. n. Declaring.] [F. d['e]clarer, from L. declarare; de + clarare to make clear, clarus, clear, bright. See Clear.]
  1. To make clear; to free from obscurity. [Obs.] ``To declare this a little.'' --Boyle.
  2. To make known by language; to communicate or manifest explicitly and plainly in any way; to exhibit; to publish; to proclaim; to announce. This day I have begot whom I declare My only Son. --Milton. The heavens declare the glory of God. --Ps. xix. 1.
  3. To make declaration of; to assert; to affirm; to set forth; to avow; as, he declares the story to be false. I the Lord . . . declare things that are right. --Isa. xlv. 19.
  4. (Com.) To make full statement of, as goods, etc., for the purpose of paying taxes, duties, etc. To declare off, to recede from an agreement, undertaking, contract, etc.; to renounce. To declare one's self, to avow one's opinion; to show openly what one thinks, or which side he espouses.
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* I have heard with admiring submission the experience of the lady who declared that the sense of being well-dressed gives a feeling of inward tranquillity which religion is powerless to bestow. - Ralph Waldo Emerson

* Believing with you that religion is a matter which lies solely between man and his God, that he owes account to none other for his faith or his worship, that the legislative powers of government reach actions only, and not opinions, I contemplate with sovereign reverence that act of the whole American people which declared that their legislature should 'make no law respecting an establishment of religion, or prohibiting the free exercise thereof,' thus building a wall of separation between Church and State. - Thomas Jefferson

* If a man watches three football games in a row he should be declared legally dead. - Erma Bombeck


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  • GE Announces GE Capital Board Declared a Dividend of $475 million to its Parent GE - Yahoo Finance
    GE [NYSE: GE] announced today that the Board of Directors of GE Capital Corporation (GECC) has declared a quarterly dividend of $475 million payable to its parent GE in the second quarter 2012. 2012 dividend payments, which are subject to GECC ... Read more on this news related to 'Declared'
  • NATO Shifts To Help An Elusive Afghanistan Peace - NPR News
    CHICAGO (AP) — President Barack Obama and NATO allies declared Sunday that the end of the long and unpopular Afghanistan war is in sight even as they struggled to hold their fighting force together in the face of dwindling patience and shaky unity. Read more on this news related to 'Declared'
  • Nationalist Nikolic Declares Victory In Serbian Presidential Vote; Tadic Concedes - Global Security
    Opposition leader Tomislav Nikolic has declared himself the winner in Serbia's runoff election for president in a vote that could boost fears of a renewed nationalism and deepen political divides. His two-term presidential opponent, Boris Tadic ... Read more on this news related to 'Declared'

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