entune
entune verb: to tune.
Verb
entune (third-person singular simple present entunes, present participle entuning, simple past and past participle entuned)
- To tune.
- Let other bards their harps entune for knight and lady gay, Be mine the homely, humble task, to weave the plaintive lay, Which pleads for injured innocence, and breathes the heartfelt prayer For the gentle village maiden, heart-broken with despair.1841 October, P.G. Benjamin Stott, “The Fate of Marion”, in The Odd Fellows' Magazine, volume 6, number 8, page 416
- And he shall come again, Shall judge the All, entune disharmony, Shall wipe all weeping eyes: the Lord of Lords, The Christ, the Lord himself, the mighty Lord!1877, Edward Williams Johns, The Silver Wedding, page 149
- To intone or sing.
- And well I ween, ye cannot quite be fled, Ere ye entune his mournful elegy.1751, Mr. Mason, Collection of Poems: In Three Volumes - Volume 3, page 304
- A voice that should entune love's melodies With tearful cadence, plaintive as the wind; Pleading enfranchisement from self-wound chain.1856, Edward Wilberforce, The Idler, a treasury of essay, criticism and general literature, page 294
Examples of entune in a sentence
- To celebrate in pean lays Returning months, let not that night Her voice entune.1894, Hiram Mason Sydenstricker, The Epic of the Orient, page 12:
- Especially is this so of the songs of the HAWAIIAN race, upon whom the hand of detiny is enforcing changes which will soon entune their natural musical capabilities to the songs of other lands.1901, Charles A. K. Hopkins, Aloha collection of Hawaiian songs, page 4:
- It is the function of the poet to entune his readers with the universe, or, in Whitman's words, to indicate the path between reality and man's soul.1947, Alice Beal Parsons, The World Around the Mountain, page 169:
- New Agers who, through meditation, yoga or ritual, are reaching out to cosmic energy in order to 'entune' themselves with the beyond.2021, Eileen Barker, “Contemporary Creations and Re-cognitions of Sacred Sites”, in David W. Kim, editor, Sacred Sites and Sacred Stories...
Forms of entune
| third-person singular present | entunes |
|---|---|
| present participle | entuning |
| past participle | entuned |
| past | entuned |
Words that rhyme with entune
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- croon
- blue moon
- boon
- monsoon
- noon
- pontoon
- raccoon
- tribune
- attune
- dragoon
- hoon
- immune
- picayune
- platoon
- soon
- swoon
- tycoon
- afternoon
- baboon
- commune
- doubloon
- harpoon
- jejune
- pantaloon
- picaroon
- shalloon
- bassoon
- buffoon
- cocoon
- dabloon
- gadroon
- hewn
- impugn
- jargoon
- june
- lacune
- last chance saloon
- lune
- macaroon
- man in the moon
- maroon
- poon
- puccoon
- ratoon
- scone
- toon
- trial balloon
- troon
Questions about entune
- What does entune mean?
- Entune means to tune.
- How do you use entune in a sentence?
- To celebrate in pean lays Returning months, let not that night Her voice entune.
- What part of speech is entune?
- Entune is a verb.
- What is the past tense of entune?
- The past tense of entune is entuned.
Words near entune in the dictionary
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