1620 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Hist. Councel of Trent vii. 819 It was replied that he might haue suffered others to make the intonation, and not to haue beene the authour himselfe of that preiudice.

1696 E. Phillips New World of Words (new ed.) Intonation, the giving the Tune or Key by the Chanter to the rest of the Quire.

1852 W. F. Hook Church Dict. (1871) 399 Intonation is, properly speaking, the recitation by the chanter..of the commencing words of the psalm or hymn, before the choir begins.

1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 12 Some of the most important Intonations in general use are those proper to the Gregorian Tones.

1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 12 Handel, in ‘The Lord gave the word’, from ‘The Messiah’, uses the Intonation of the First Tone, transposed a fourth higher, with wonderful effect.

1788 E. Gibbon Decline & Fall xlviii The conspirators..expected, as the signal of murder, the intonation of the first psalm by the emperor himself.

1795 W. Mason Ess. Eng. Church Music ii. 90 These were all sung not merely in simple intonation or chaunt, but in this mode of figurate discant.

1796 T. J. Mathias Pursuits of Lit.: Pt. III 39 Her bolder notes the willing Muse should swell In lyrick intonation, grave and deep.

1862 F. Hall tr. N. N. Gore Rational Refut. Hindu Philos. Syst. 68 The recitation and intonation of hymns of praise from the Veda.

1791 ‘T. Newte’ Prospects & Observ. Tour 201 The people of Inverness..are not only free from that unfortunate intonation of Aberdeenshire..but speak the English language with greater purity than they do in any other part in Scotland.

1843 E. Bulwer-Lytton Last of Barons I. i. ii. 29 There was a marked distinction in the intonation, the accent, the modulation of voice.

1873 W. Black Princess of Thule i. 12 That peculiar and pleasant intonation that marks the speech of the Hebridean who has been taught English in the schools.

1935 M. Schubiger Role of Intonation 2 Word-order can remain unaltered, and then the different intonation, the rising instead of the falling tune, is the sole bearer of the interrogative relation.

1965 W. S. Allen Vox Latina 6 It is important to distinguish tone from intonation. The former refers to the pitch-patterns operative within individual words, whereas ‘intonation’ refers to the pitch-pattern operative over the whole clause or sentence.

1964 C. Barber Ling. Change Present-day Eng. iii. 50 There are intonation-changes inside the syllable which require a certain length of vowel to manifest themselves.

1953 Internat. Jrnl. Amer. Linguistics 19 ii. Suppl. 29 Hjelmslev requested a metalinguistic analysis of the English intonation morphemes which Smith had demonstrated earlier so as to make clear the difference between differential meaning and the meaning in general of the intonation patterns.

1945 K. L. Pike Intonation Amer. Eng. iii. 20 All speakers of the language use basic pitch sequences in similar ways under similar circumstances. These abstracted characteristic sentence melodies may be called Intonation Contours.

1960 Language & Speech III. 223 (heading) Attitudinal meanings conveyed by intonation contours.

1964 R. A. Hall Introd. Ling. xix. 114 An intonation contour does not..make any difference in the ‘dictionary meaning’ of an utterance.

1970 Language 46 265 Its ultimate speech correlates appear in the shape of the tense-carrying morphemes, the word order, and the intonation contour.

1936 H. Mulder Cognition & Volition in Lang. ii. 65 Wishes, commands, and questions introduced by interrogative pronouns, can be communicated on the same intonation-curve as plain statements.

1965 Language 41 498 In refusing to consider intonation-curves as subject to division into significant units, Martinet alleges that every modification..of a melodic curve brings with it a corresponding modification of meaning.

1966 G. N. Leech Eng. in Advertising ii. 18 The relationship of apposition between elements is marked in speech by tone-concord, or equivalent intonation patterns on each element.

1971 D. Crystal Linguistics Interlude 134 A noun phrase may not have any separate intonation pattern at all.

1948 K. L. Pike Tone Lang. v. 60 One may choose to call the key pitches intonation phonemes or intonemes.

1934 J. J. Hogan Outl. Eng. Philol. i. v. 31 Its [sc. a verse's] accompanying intonation-tune suffers modification by the regular tune which is what the line always retains of its character as a sentence or clause.

1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iv. 148 Intonations or intonation tunes, as they are often called, are regular sequences of pitch differences coextensive with a whole sentence or with successive parts thereof, and constituting an essential feature of normal spoken utterance.

1935 M. Schubiger Role of Intonation 9 If the psychological predicate consists of several words the most important gets the intonation turn.

1895 J. Osgood in Forum June 503 The misused intonational ‘twist’, technically noted as the circumflex inflection.

1952 Trans. Philol. Soc. 91 Differences of intonational relationship between stem and ending.

1958 C. F. Hockett Course in Mod. Linguistics 45 Certain types of speech..show..a total loss of intonational contrasts.

1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iv. 149 In English..stressed syllables carry more intonational weight than unstressed syllables.

1971 D. Crystal Linguistics 133 The intonational movement over the noun phrase as a whole must be indicated.

1923 W. Thomson Rhythm of Speech xii. 503 There is a pattern for which the student should always be on the outlook, and the repetition of which in a line he should bring out clearly with his voice, both accentually and intonationally.

1949 E. A. Nida Morphol. (ed. 2) iii. 62 In English the sentence-final glides which follow the last intonationally stressed syllable constitute morphemes.

1964 R. H. Robins Gen. Linguistics iii. 112 The different ways in which pitch differences are exploited intonationally and tonally.

1658 E. Phillips New World Eng. Words Intonation, a thundering or making a terrible noise.

1755 in S. Johnson Dict. Eng. Lang.

1855 R. G. Mayne Expos. Lexicon Med. Sci. (1860) Term applied to the gurgling noise produced by the movement of flatus in the bowels: intonation.