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intonate
English
Etymology
Latin intonatus, past participle of intonare (“to thunder, resound”).
Verb
intonate (third-person singular simple present intonates, present participle intonating, simple past and past participle intonated)
- (transitive, intransitive, dated) To intone or recite (words), especially emphatically or in a chanting manner.
- 1840, Thomas De Quincey, “Theory of Greek Tragedy” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 47, No. 292, February 1840, p. 153,[2]
- […] we have no doubt whatever that the recitation of verse on the stage was of an artificial and semi-musical character. It was undoubtedly much more sustained and intonated with a slow and measured stateliness, which, whilst harmonizing it with the other circumstances of solemnity in Greek tragedy, would bring it nearer to music.
- 1911, Charles Clinton Nourse, Autobiography, Cedar Rapids, Iowa: for the author, Chapter 2,[3]
- His manner on the platform and his speech were those of a drony, sing-song, intonating Episcopal minister, devoid of life and spirit.
- 1985, David H. Rothman, The Silicon Jungle, New York: Ballantine, Chapter 10, p. 171,[4]
- With actorlike polish he intonated through the third page […]
- 1840, Thomas De Quincey, “Theory of Greek Tragedy” in Blackwood’s Edinburgh Magazine, Volume 47, No. 292, February 1840, p. 153,[2]
- (transitive, dated) To say or speak with a certain intonation.
- 1845, Sheridan Le Fanu, The Cock and the Anchor, Dublin: William Curry, Jun., Volume 1, Chapter 6, p. 74,[5]
- “Is this Mr. O’Connor’s chamber?” inquired a voice of peculiar richness, intonated not unpleasingly with a certain melodious modification of the brogue […]
- 1858, Nathaniel Hawthorne, Passages from the French and Italian Note-Books of Nathaniel Hawthorne, London: Strahan, 1871, Volume 1, “Rome,” p. 274,[6]
- Miss Bremer talked plentifully in her strange manner—good English enough for a foreigner, but so oddly intonated and accented, that it is impossible to be sure of more than one word in ten.
- 1882, Road Scrapings: Coaches and Coaching, London: Tinsley Brothers, Chapter 6, p. 92,[7]
- […] an older man, attired in gray, with hair to match, was busily engaged at one end of the room packing a quantity of small cases into a larger one, and continuing to hold converse with himself by means of the monosyllable “yes,” differently intonated, at intervals of half-a-minute, “y-e-s—y-e-s.”
- 1920, Paul Klapper, Teaching Children to Read, New York: Appleton, Chapter 8, p. 118,[8]
- […] another child of foreign parentage intonates his English with the cadence peculiar to the language of his parents.
- 1845, Sheridan Le Fanu, The Cock and the Anchor, Dublin: William Curry, Jun., Volume 1, Chapter 6, p. 74,[5]
- (transitive, dated) To intone or vocalize (musical notes); to sound the tones of the musical scale; to practise the sol-fa.
- 1776, John Hawkins, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 3 p. 431,[9]
- The composer so ordered it, that the king’s part should be one holding note, in a pitch proper for a Contratenor, for that was the king’s voice. Nor was he inattentive to other particulars, for he contrived his own part, which was the Bass, in such a manner, that every other note he sung was an octave to that of the king, which prevented his majesty from deviating from that single note which he was to intonate.
- 1844, The order for morning and evening prayer, and the Litany : with plain-tune, according to the use of the United Church of England and Ireland, London: J. Burns,Editor’s Preface,[10]
- A comma or colon was intonated by the fall of a minor third from the key-note on the ultimate or penultimate and ultimate syllables of the clause […]
- 1776, John Hawkins, A General History of the Science and Practice of Music, Volume 2, Book 4, Chapter 3 p. 431,[9]
- (obsolete) To thunder or to utter in a sonorous or thunderous voice.
- 1543, Thomas Beccon, A pleasaunt newe nosegaye full of many godly and swete floures, London: John Gough, Dedicatory epistle,[11]
- But agaynst all such as contemne the holy scriptures & cast awaye the law of theyr LORDE God, wyllynge neither to enter them selues, nor yet suffryng other, christ intonateth and thonderethe on this manner […]
- 1663, Edward Waterhouse, Fortescutus Illustratus, London: Thomas Dicas, Chapter 1, p. 30,[12]
- […] I hold a Prince ought not wholly to neglect Military Affairs, but verse himself in, and accustome himself to them, that he may intonate fear into Neighbours […]
- 19th century, Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, “Ode to Deity” in Poems, New York: E. Bliss and E. White et al., p. 159,[13]
- And o’er the sphere the forked lightning flies,
- And intonating thunders shake the skies.
- 1543, Thomas Beccon, A pleasaunt newe nosegaye full of many godly and swete floures, London: John Gough, Dedicatory epistle,[11]
Related terms
- intonation
References
Italian
Verb
intonate
- second-person plural present indicative of intonare
- second-person plural imperative of intonare
- feminine plural of intonato
Latin
Verb
inton?te
- second-person plural present active imperative of inton?
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intonation
English
Etymology
From French intonation, from Medieval Latin intonatio, from inton? +? -ti?.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?nt??ne???n/
- Rhymes: -e???n
Noun
intonation (countable and uncountable, plural intonations)
- (linguistics) The rise and fall of the voice in speaking.
- The act of sounding the tones of the musical scale.
- Singing or playing in good tune or otherwise.
- Her intonation was false.
- Reciting in a musical prolonged tone; intonating or singing of the opening phrase of a plain-chant, psalm, or canticle by a single voice, as of a priest.
- A thundering; thunder.
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Translations
References
- intonation in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
- intonation in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
French
Pronunciation
Noun
intonation f (plural intonations)
- intonation (all senses)
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