0 past simple and past participle of intone
1 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.
The difference can also be heard at the beginning of the introit, intoned by a smaller group of singers only in the older version.
Presumably so named because these chants were intoned on the steps of the ambo or altar.
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.
Both of her readings are fluent, color fully intoned, and with carefully enunciated literary standard pronunciation.
How are questions and exclamations intoned?
A price, he intoned, has to be paid for freedom.
Nevertheless, we need to beware of this concept being hijacked and used with overweening ideological verbosity, encroaching on new areas and being intoned in support of questionable technical proposals.
