Brewer's: 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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