0 present 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.
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.
The intoning is then repeated, tuned to a dissonant pitch cluster.
I thought he was beginning to burst into song, but he was only intoning.
It is no good intoning an incantation about how we want higher standards and about taking people from industry into higher education.
When she reaches 9, an ominous-sounding male voice is suddenly heard intoning the countdown of a rocket launch.
Ominous choirs are heard intoning as the black skies give way to high winds and tall waves.
Its use after compline is likely traceable to the monastic practice of intoning it in chapel and chanting it on the way to sleeping quarters.
