entone, v.
(ɛnˈtəʊn)
[a. Fr. entonne-r: see intone.]
trans. = intone; occas. used arch. and techn. with reference to church music.
| c 1485 Digby Myst. (1882) iv. 1498 Now may thou entone a mery songe. Ibid. 1620 Entone sum ermonye! 1833 Mrs. Browning Prometh. Bound Poet. Wks. 1850 I. 158 All the mortal nations..Are a dirge entoning. |
Hence enˈtonement, the action of intoning.
| 1849–53 Rock Ch. of Fathers IV. xii. 137 Each took his own side of the choir for the entonement of the antiphons. |