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entone, v.|ɛnˈtəʊn|
[a. Fr. entonne-r: see intone.]
trans. = intone; occas. used arch. and techn. with reference to church music.
c1485Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 1498 Now may thou entone a mery songe. Ibid. 1620 Entone sum ermonye! 1833Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound Poet. Wks. 1850 I. 158 All the mortal nations..Are a dirge entoning.
Hence enˈtonement, the action of intoning.
1849–53Rock Ch. of Fathers IV. xii. 137 Each took his own side of the choir for the entonement of the antiphons. |