INTONATE

v.

4 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)


1.
v.

To thunder. [Obs.] Bailey.

2.
v.

To sound the tones of the musical scale; to practice the sol- fa.

3.
v.

To modulate the voice in a musical, sonorous, and measured manner, as in reading the liturgy; to intone.

4.
v.

To utter in a musical or sonorous manner; to chant; as, to intonate the liturgy.


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