entune

present singular third person entunes · participle present entuning · participle past entuned · past entuned

1. poeticTo tune.

   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

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   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

   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. But as soon as the poet strives to entune himself with the universe, he finds himself thinking of death.

   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 Across Cultures, page 309

2. poeticTo intone or sing.

   And harps of thousand strings entune His lays.

   1885, John Humberger, The Conquest and Triumph of Divine Wisdom and Love in Predestination, page 110

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   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

   With what cold wintry rune Shall we thy praise entune?

   1889, Louise Chandler Moulton, In the Garden of Dreams: Lyrics and Sonnets, page 59

   When they have an intimate connection with their own or another's wife, the behold in her the image of the goddess, and think to personate the god, her husband, and at this time they sing a prescribed song, which to entune at the very moment of the closest junction, they believe to be most recommendable.

   1901, David Shea, Anthony Troyer, transl., The Dabistán, or School of Manners, page 253

   How sublime a music to hear these hundreds of men entune their sacred anthems to God.

   2020, Joseph Krauskopf, Jews and Moors in Spain