Definition of Tonic

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Definition of Tonic

Tonic

Characterized by continuous muscular contraction; as, tonic convulsions.

Of or relating to tones or sounds; specifically (Phon.), 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 (1833) " from their forming the purest and most plastic material of intonation."

Of or pertaining to tension; increasing tension; hence, increasing strength; as, tonic power.

Increasing strength, or the tone of the animal system; obviating the effects of debility, and restoring healthy functions.

A tonic element or letter; a vowel or a diphthong.

The key tone, or first tone of any scale.

A medicine that increases the strength, and gives vigor of action to the system.

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Tonic Quotations

Laughter is the tonic, the relief, the surcease for pain.
Charlie Chaplin

Madness is tonic and invigorating. It makes the sane more sane. The only ones who are unable to profit by it are the insane.
Henry Miller

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something better tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden

There is no medicine like hope, no incentive so great, and no tonic so powerful as expectation of something tomorrow.
Orison Swett Marden

If you do not feel yourself growing in your work and your life broadening and deepening, if your task is not a perpetual tonic to you, you have not found your place.
Orison Swett Marden

My good health is due to a soup made of white doves. It is simply wonderful as a tonic.
Chiang Kai-shek

That's why I wrote this book: to show how these people can imbue us with hope. I read somewhere that when a person takes part in community action, his health improves. Something happens to him or to her biologically. It's like a tonic.
Studs Terkel

Woes and wonders of Power, that tonic hell, synthesis of poison and panacea.
Emile M. Cioran

Difficulties should act as a tonic. They should spur us to greater exertion.
B. C. Forbes

There are days when solitude is a heady wine that intoxicates you with freedom, others when it is a bitter tonic, and still others when it is a poison that makes you beat your head against the wall.
Sidonie Gabrielle Colette

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