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.