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Definition of Intonated
1. intonate [v] - See also: intonate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intonated
Literary usage of Intonated
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Journal of the Asiatic Society of Bombay by Asiatic Society of Bombay (1885)
"When the intonated breath is let off through the rounded lips, ... If the intonated
breath is allowed to pass away when the mouth is in its natural position ..."
2. Chips from a German Workshop by Friedrich Max Müller, Christian Karl Josias Bunsen (1890)
"Whether in saying that the soft consonants can be intonated, I could have meant
that they may or may not be intonated (p. 497) ; 15. ..."
3. Oriental and Linguistic Studies by William Dwight Whitney (1893)
"Repeatedly, he will not allow that the " sonant " letters are intonated, but only
that they may be intonated. He frames an unintelligible theory of spir- ..."
4. The Quarterly Review by William Gifford, John Taylor Coleridge, John Gibson Lockhart, Whitwell Elwin, William Macpherson, William Smith, John Murray, Rowland Edmund Prothero Ernle, George Walter Prothero (1811)
"... what are the 846 characters which express the original monosyllables, or even
the two thousand which express them intonated, to the whole ? ..."
5. Language and the Study of Language: Twelve Lectures on the Principles of by William Dwight Whitney (1889)
"The action of the throat has varied once ; passing without modification the breath
expended in uttering the/, it has intonated, in one unbroken stream, ..."
6. How to Sing: Meine Gesangskunst by Lilli Lehmann (1914)
"Nearly all of them are intonated in the a-form. After each consonant-pause C7*)
which serves as well for distinct utterance as for preparation, ..."
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