Word Meanings - TONICAL - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Tonic. Sir T. Browne.
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Tonic. Sir T. Browne. - 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 - TONICITY
The state of healty tension or partial contraction of muscle fibers while at rest; tone; tonus. - CROTONIC
Of or pertaining to, or derived from, a plant of the genus Croton, or from croton oil. Crotonic acid , a white crystalline organic acid, C3H5.CO2H, of the ethylene, or acrylic acid series. It was so named because formerly supposed to - PLATONICALLY
In a Platonic manner. - PLATONIC; PLATONICAL
1. Of or pertaining to Plato, or his philosophy, school, or opinions. 2. Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical. Platonic bodies, the five regular geometrical solids; namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and - EUPITTONIC
Pertaining to, or derived from, eupittone. - ARCHITECTONIC; ARCHITECTONICAL
1. Pertaining to a master builder, or to architecture; evincing skill in designing or construction; constructive. "Architectonic wisdom." Boyle. These architectonic functions which we had hitherto thought belonged. J. C. Shairp. 2. Relating to - ARCHITECTONIC
1. The science of architecture. 2. The act of arranging knowledge into a system. - ISOTONIC
Having or indicating, equal tones, or tension. Isotonic system , a system consisting of intervals, in which each concord is alike tempered, and in which there are twelve equal semitones. - TEUTONICISM
A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism. - OXYTONICAL
Oxytone. - METONIC
Pertaining to, or discovered by, Meton, the Athenian. Metonic cycle or year. See under Cycle. - STRATONIC
Of or pertaining to an army. - ARCHITECTONICS
The science of architecture. - SYNTONIC
Of or pert. to syntony; specif., designating, or pert. to, a system of wireless telegraphy in which the transmitting and receiving apparatus are in syntony with, and only with, one another. -- Syn*ton"ic*al , a. --Syn*ton"ic*al*ly, adv. - PLATONIC
A follower of Plato; a Platonist. - NEOPLATONICIAN
A neoplatonist. - ENTONIC
Having great tension, or exaggerated action. Dunglison. - TECTONICS
The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas. - TEUTONIC
1. Of or pertaining to the Teutons, esp. the ancient Teutons; Germanic. 2. Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic languages, or the peoples who speak these languages. Teutonic languages, a group of languages forming a division of the