Articulate

1. Expressed in articles or in separate items or particulars. [Archaic]
2. Jointed; formed with joints; consisting of segments united by joints; as, articulate animals or plants.
3. Distinctly uttered; spoken so as to be intelligible; characterized by division into words and syllables; as, articulate speech, sounds, words.

   Total changes of party and articulate opinion.

1. An animal of the subkingdom Articulata. (Zool.)

imp. & p. p. Articulated; p. pr. & vb. n. Articulating

1. To utter articulate sounds; to utter the elementary sounds of a language; to enunciate; to speak distinctly.
2. To treat or make terms. [Obs.]
3. To join or be connected by articulation.

1. To joint; to unite by means of a joint; to put together with joints or at the joints.
2. To draw up or write in separate articles; to particularize; to specify. [Obs.]
3. To form, as the elementary sounds; to utter in distinct syllables or words; to enunciate; as, to articulate letters or language.
4. To express distinctly; to give utterance to.

   Luther articulated himself upon a process that hand already begun in the Christian church.

   To . . . articulate the dumb, deep want of the people.