Dictionary of Phrase and Fable—I

Intone

(2 syl.). To thunder out, intonation, the thundering of the voice. (Latin, tono, to thunder.) The Romans said that Cicero and Demosthenes “thundered out their orations.” To recite in a musical monotone.

Source: Dictionary of Phrase and Fable, E. Cobham Brewer, 1894
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