Definition of tonic

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Tonic (n.) A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

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Fifth :: Fifth (n.) The interval of three tones and a semitone, embracing five diatonic degrees of the scale; the dominant of any key..
Plotinist :: Plotinist (n.) A disciple of Plotinus, a celebrated Platonic philosopher of the third century, who taught that the human soul emanates from the divine Being, to whom it reunited at death..
Eupittonic :: Eupittonic (a.) Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone..
Tectonic :: Tectonic (a.) Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.
Atonic :: Atonic (a.) Destitute of tone vocality; surd.
Freya :: Freya (n.) The daughter of Njord, and goddess of love and beauty; the Scandinavian Venus; -- in Teutonic myths confounded with Frigga, but in Scandinavian, distinct..
Tetanic :: Tetanic (a.) Producing, or tending to produce, tetanus, or tonic contraction of the muscles; as, a tetanic remedy. See Tetanic, n..
Entasia :: Entasia (n.) Tonic spasm; -- applied generically to denote any disease characterized by tonic spasms, as tetanus, trismus, etc..
Betony :: Betony (n.) A plant of the genus Betonica (Linn.).
Monotonic :: Monotonic (a.) Alt. of Monotonica.
Aryan :: Aryan (n.) One of a primitive people supposed to have lived in prehistoric times, in Central Asia, east of the Caspian Sea, and north of the Hindoo Koosh and Paropamisan Mountains, and to have been the stock from which sprang the Hindoo, Persian, Greek, Latin, Celtic, Teutonic, Slavonic, and other races; one of that ethnological division of mankind called also Indo-European or Indo-Germanic..
Copperas :: Copperas (n.) Green vitriol, or sulphate of iron; a green crystalline substance, of an astringent taste, used in making ink, in dyeing black, as a tonic in medicine, etc. It is made on a large scale by the oxidation of iron pyrites. Called also ferrous sulphate..
Gradation :: Gradation (n.) A diatonic ascending or descending succession of chords.
Huttonian :: Huttonian (a.) Relating to what is now called the Plutonic theory of the earth, first advanced by Dr. James Hutton..
Vulcanology :: Vulcanology (n.) The science which treats of phenomena due to plutonic action, as in volcanoes, hot springs, etc..
Sequence :: Sequence (n.) Any succession of chords (or harmonic phrase) rising or falling by the regular diatonic degrees in the same scale; a succession of similar harmonic steps.
Contrayerva :: Contrayerva (n.) A species of Dorstenia (D. Contrayerva), a South American plant, the aromatic root of which is sometimes used in medicine as a gentle stimulant and tonic..
Semitonic :: Semitonic (a.) Of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones..
Isotonic :: Isotonic (a.) Having or indicating, equal tones, or tension..
Anglo-saxon :: Anglo-Saxon (n.) The Teutonic people (Angles, Saxons, Jutes) of England, or the English people, collectively, before the Norman Conquest..
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