0 (also tonic-water) water containing quinine, often drunk with gin etc -- tonic
1 (a) medicine that gives strength or energy -- styrkemiddel/-medisin
The doctor prescribed a (bottle of) tonic.
In the first phrase the motif begins with an arpeggio figure on the tonic.
This is accomplished partly through the avoidance of a full tonic resolution until the closing measures of the piece.
Furthermore, our empirical data suggest that tonic and burst responses under our conditions of visual stimulation are not ends of a smooth continuum.
This is easily extensive enough to make the eventual breakdown of syntax after a tonic reprise deeply surprising.
A tonic hyperpolarization underlying contrast adaptation in cat visual cortex.
In the absence of traditional voice leading based on tonic/dominant harmony, some composers gravitated toward the use of symmetry.
This is a book positively bristling with personality and individuality and was a tonic to myflaggingopinion of the reference book.
In fact, the voice arrives at the tonic too early, while the guitar has only reached the dominant.
