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Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise; as, her intonation was false.

An exclamation expressing, by different intonations, triumph, mixed with derision or irony, or simple surprise.

Oratorical or expressive delivery, including the graces of intonation, gesture, etc.; style or manner of speaking or reading in public; as, clear, impressive elocution. "The elocution of a reader." Whately

Pertaining to a scale of perfect intonation which recognizes all the notes and intervals that result from the exact tuning of diatonic scales and their transposition into other keys.

In the enharmonic style or system; in just intonation.

as to praise it in others, even when they do not practice it themselves. Tillotson. Just intonation. (Mus.) (a) The correct sounding of notes or intervals; true pitch. (b) The giving all chords and intervals in their purity or their exact mathematical ratio, or without temperament; a process in which the number of not…

The orotund mode of intonation.

Of or belonging to points of division; relating to punctuation. The punctuative intonation of feeble cadence. Rush.

led by Dr. James Rush (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."

The state of giving the proper, sound or sounds; just intonation; harmonious accordance; pitch of the voice or an instrument; adjustment of the parts of an instrument so as to harmonize with itself or with others; as, the piano, or the organ, is not in tune. Like sweet bells jangled, out of tune and harsh. Shak.…

To form into voice; to make vocal or sonant; to give intonation or resonance to. It is one thing to give an impulse to breath alone, another thing to vocalize that breath. Holder.