intonate

verb4

1. •
   (old-fashioned) To intone or recite (words), especially emphatically or in a chanting manner.

   • His manner on the platform and his speech were those of a drony, sing-song, intonating Episcopal minister, devoid of life and spirit. — 1911
2. •
   (old-fashioned) To intone or vocalize (musical notes); to sound the tones of the musical scale; to practise the sol-fa.

   • A comma or colon was intonated by the fall of a minor third from the key-note on the ultimate or penultimate and ultimate syllables of the clause […] — 1844
3. •
   (old-fashioned) To say or speak with a certain intonation.

   • “Is this Mr. O’Connor’s chamber?” inquired a voice of peculiar richness, intonated not unpleasingly with a certain melodious modification of the brogue […] — 1845
4. •
   (no longer used) To thunder or to utter in a sonorous or thunderous voice.

   • 19th century, Sumner Lincoln Fairfield, “Ode to Deity” in Poems, New York: E. Bliss and E. White et al., p. 159, And o’er the sphere the forked lightning flies, And intonating thunders shake the skies.