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▪ I. attune, v.|əˈtjuːn|
[f. at- prefix3 + tune v.; probably suggested by atone.]
1. a. To bring into musical accord. Const. to.
1596Spenser F.Q. ii. xii. 76 Gan all the quire of birdes Their diverse notes t'attune unto his lay. 1725Pope Odyss. xvii. 312 For Phemius to lyre attuned the strain. 1814Wordsw. Wh. Doe i. 327 Fancies wild: To which with no reluctant strings Thou hast attuned thy murmurings. 1867Macfarren Harmony iv. (1876) 144 Were all the notes perfectly attuned to the true natural scale.
b. fig. To bring into harmony or accord.
1727Thomson Summer 1365 Social friends Attun'd to happy union of soul. 1849Freeman Archit. 90 The mind attuned to grace and harmony.
2. To bring (a musical instrument) to the right pitch; to tune. Also fig.
1728Thomson Spring 1116 Harmony itself Attuning all their passions into love. 1866Argyll Reign Law v. 276 The physical causes which have ‘attuned’ a material organ so as to catch certain ethereal pulsations in the external world. 1875B. Taylor Faust I. xxi. 186, I hear the noise of instruments attuning.
3. To make tuneful or melodious.
1667Milton P.L. iv. 265 Aires, vernal aires..attune The trembling leaves. c1750Shenstone Ruin'd Abbey 14 Birds..Attune from native boughs their various lay. 1796Coleridge Dejection, Joy lift her spirit, joy attune her voice.
†4. Wireless Telegr. To tune in. Obs.
1899R. Routledge Discov. 19th C. (ed. 13) 546 A Geissler tube, when its circuit is properly attuned, can be lighted up by the magneto-electric disturbances propagated without material contacts, and this itself would constitute a method of signalling to a distance. 1901Westm. Gaz. 23 Dec. 5/1 The message..would reach every attuned recorder within that distance. 1902Ibid. 30 Apr. 12/2 Inventions covering the attuning of transmitters and receivers.
▪ II. attune, n. rare.|əˈtjuːn|
[f. prec. vb.; cf. accord, to accord.]
Tuneful accord, harmony.
1850Mrs. Browning Poems II. 290 The new generations that cry In attune to our voice..‘God,’ ‘Liberty,’ ‘Truth.’ |