0 to say something slowly and seriously in a voice that does not rise or fall much:
[ + speech ] "Let us pray," the priest intoned to his congregation.
1 to say something slowly and seriously in a voice that does not rise or fall much:
The difference can also be heard at the beginning of the introit, intoned by a smaller group of singers only in the older version.
The saint intones a church theme that, in proper liturgical usage, could well have been sung on the saint's own feast day.
Presumably so named because these chants were intoned on the steps of the ambo or altar.
Here the precentors are sitting, and they alternate with one another, two together alternately intoning the psalms, very pleasantly and magnificently.
It is, however, syntactically independent and serves the poetic function of constantly intoning the exhortation to rejoice.
Abreaction is characterized, intones the instructor, by a literal reliving, moment by moment and in real time, of the formerly repressed memory.
The performance note with which the composer prefaces the score provides the key to its aesthetic effect: the text is intoned as if it sounds.
Discrimination and evocation of affectively intoned speech in patients with right parietal disease.
