Word Meanings - TONIC - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring heatly functions. Tononic spasm. See the Note under Spasm. (more info) 1. Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically , applied to, or

Additional info about word: TONIC

Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring heatly functions. Tononic spasm. See the Note under Spasm. (more info) 1. Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically , applied to, or distingshing, a speech sound made with tone unmixed and undimmed by obstruction, such sounds, namely, the vowels and diphthongs, being so called by Dr. James Rush " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation." 2. Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.

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