Tonically
Definition, Meaning & Examples
Part of speech adverb
Quick meaning: Tonically is an adverb meaning in a tonic manner.
Meaning
in a tonic manner.
Example Sentences
It is too proud, too austere, too true, and too tonically cruel to appeal to mandarins.
Slow-developing changes in the population response of the tonically active neurons of the striatum, putative interneurons, have also been found [ T. Aosaki, et al., J. Neurosci.
Force must not be used, but steady firm pressure against the tonically contracted cricopharyngeus is made, while at the same time the distal end of the esophagoscope is lifted by the left thumb.
The preceding, for instance, proceeds regularly in the key of G in all respects but the very ending of each strain, which takes place in the key of C. Or to speak tonically, the melody and accompaniment after being written nearly all the way in the key of Do, suddenly diverge to the key of Fa, and there close.
Related Words
Related dictionary entries include tonally, tonishly, tonetically, tetanically, tonometrically, atonically.
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