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Definition of Intonates
1. intonate [v] - See also: intonate
Lexicographical Neighbors of Intonates
Literary usage of Intonates
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The London Encyclopaedia, Or, Universal Dictionary of Science, Art by Thomas Tegg (1829)
"The greater the pipe the less quickly it intonates of itself, and the shorter,
therefore, the pipe the more suddenly it intonates : a principle imperatively ..."
2. Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine (1824)
"It may be asked, why must Italian music be overcharged to an Englishman ? why,
because the Italian naturally intonates his language with greater violence, ..."
3. Eminent Women of the Age: Being Narratives of the Lives and Deeds of the by James Parton (1869)
"These qualities are apparent in the certainty and precision with which she
intonates distant intervals, the note being at once perfectly reached without ..."
4. Variations by James Huneker (1921)
"Chopin had dedicated to her the first book of his Etudes. She was beautiful,
accomplished, though her intonates declare that hers was not a ..."
5. A Law Dictionary, Adapted to the Constitution: And Laws of the United States by John Bouvier (1874)
"... of suits for dower, partition, filial portions, legacies, and distributive
shares of intonates' estates, and all other matters relating thereto; to try, ..."
6. Dwight's Journal of Music: A Paper of Art and Literature by John Sullivan Dwight (1880)
"Then the chorus of the >ells is renewed, and during it the orchestra intonates
a mournful song to the words ..."
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