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Webster 1913 Edition

Verb.

[L.

intonatus

, p. p. of

intonare

to thunder, resound.]

To thunder.

[Obs.]

Bailey.

Verb.

[

imp. & p. p.

Intonated

;

p. pr. & vb. n.

Intonating

[See

(Mus.)

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

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

Verb.

To utter in a musical or sonorous manner; to chant;

as, to

intonate

the liturgy

Verb.

[L. intono, intonatus; in and tono, to sound or thunder.]

To sound; to sound the notes of the musical scale.

To thunder.