entune

English

Pronunciation
  • Rhymes: -uːn

Verb

entune (third-person singular simple present entunes, present participle entuning, simple past and past participle entuned)

  1. To tune.
  2. To intone.
    • late 14th century, Geoffrey Chaucer, General Prologue, The Canterbury Tales, line 122-123:
      Ful wel she song the service divyne,
      Entuned in hir nose ful semely;       [...]
      She sang the divine service very well,
      Intoned in her nose in a very polite manner; [...]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “entune”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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