单词 | intone |
释义 | intonen.ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > type of music > vocal music > types of song > [noun] > chanted song intone1568 chant1794 1568 in J. Small Poems W. Dunbar (1893) II. 324 The potent Prince..is, of angellis with a sweit intone, Borne of the most chest Virgyn Mary bricht. 2. The action of intoning; the tone of voice used in intoning. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > chanting chantingc1400 intonation1788 entonement1849 intonement1849 intoning1863 monotoning1878 intone1886 1886 N. Sheppard Before an Audience v. 67 The intone is easier to speak and easier to be heard. But it is equally natural for us to fall into the intone as a habit without reference to the contingency. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2019). intonev. 1. a. transitive. To utter in musical tones; to sing, chant; spec. To recite in a singing voice (esp. a psalm, prayer, etc. in a liturgy); usually to recite in monotone. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > chant sing1297 entunec1374 entonec1485 intonec1485 chant1526 rechant1600 cant1652 tone1674 intonate1795 monotone1864 incant1959 c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 1498 Now may thou entone a mery songe. c1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 1620 Entone sum ermonye. 1513 G. Douglas tr. Virgil Æneid vii. xii. 5 Ȝe Musis now..Entone [1555 intone] my sang, and till endyt me leyr. 1805 R. Southey Madoc ii. v. 222 No choristers the funeral dirge intoned. 1850 E. B. Browning tr. Æschylus Prometheus Bound (rev. ed.) in Poems (new ed.) I. 158 All the mortal nations..Are a dirge entoning. 1853 N. Wiseman Ess. III. 84 The canons hastened..to the crowded cathedral, to intone the usual song of praise. 1868 H. H. Milman Ann. St. Paul's Cathedral i. 12 The Clergy began to intone their Litany. b. absol. or intransitive. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (intransitive)] > chant sing1297 chant1570 rechant1600 intone1849 1849 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 65 681 [They] join in the most wonderful responses, in a set key, which they call entoning. 1870 C. Dickens Edwin Drood iv. 21 He has even..tried the experiment of slightly intoning in his pulpit. 1886 W. Besant Children of Gibeon II. ii. x. 136 I can intone of course, but I cannot sing. 2. To sing the opening phrase of a plain-song melody at the beginning of a chant, canticle, etc., usually as a solo or semichorus: see intonation n.1 1. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > sing [verb (transitive)] > chant > opening phrase of plain-song intone1880 1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 12 Intoning, the practice of singing the opening phrase of a Psalm, Canticle, or other piece of Ecclesiastical Music, not in full chorus, but as a solo or semi-chorus, assigned either to a single Priest, or to one, two, or four leading Choristers. 1880 W. S. Rockstro in G. Grove Dict. Music II. 15 The first clause [of the Introit] is intoned when the Celebrant approaches the Altar, by one, two, or four Choristers, according to the solemnity of the Festival: which done, the strain is taken up by the full Choir. 3. To utter with a particular tone or intonation: = intonate v.2 2. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [verb (transitive)] > intonate intonate1823 intone1860 1860 G. P. Marsh Lect. Eng. Lang. xiii. 292 A clear, appropriate and properly intoned and emphasized pronunciation, in reading aloud, is one of the rarest as well as most desirable of social accomplishments. 1866 C. Engel Introd. Study National Music ii. 27 With some uncivilized nations the ear is so little cultivated that the intervals are very rudely and indistinctly intoned. 4. intransitive. To utter tones, as in singing or speaking; ‘to make a slow protracted noise’ (Johnson). ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > hearing and noise > voice or vocal sound > quality of voice > [verb (intransitive)] > utter tones intone1728 1728 A. Pope Dunciad ii. 231 So swells each Windpipe; Ass intones to Ass, Harmonic twang! of leather, horn, and brass. 5. figurative (transitive) To imbue with a particular tone of feeling; to tone. rare. ΚΠ 1883 H. Maudsley Body & Will ii. iv. 156 Every one is penetrated and intoned, so to speak, by the social atmosphere of the particular medium in which he lives. Derivatives inˈtoned adj. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > linguistics > study of speech sound > speech sound > intonation, pitch, or stress > [adjective] > intonation tonic1849 intoned1854 tonal1866 intonational1895 tonetic1922 1854 H. H. Milman Hist. Lat. Christianity III. viii. v. 361 His was not..the richly-intoned voice swelling the full harmony of the choir. inˈtoning n. and adj. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [noun] > chanting chantingc1400 intonation1788 entonement1849 intonement1849 intoning1863 monotoning1878 intone1886 society > leisure > the arts > music > performing music > singing > [adjective] > chanting or chanted sung1473 chanted1565 canting1748 chanting1838 intoning1863 monotoning1878 1863 ‘Ouida’ Held in Bondage I. i. 3 We had prayers at eight, which he read in a style of intoning peculiar to himself. 1900 Westm. Gaz. 13 Feb. 2/1 No hush of a church listening to some intoning clergyman could have been greater. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < |
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