a. Obs. [f. as prec.: see -ICAL.]
1. = TONIC A. 1, 1 b.
1586. T. Bright, A Treatise of Melancholie, xxvi. 149. The spirits … are the authors by tonicall motion of erection [of muscles].
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., III. i. 105. One kinde of motion, relating unto that which Physitians (from Galen) doe name extensive or tonicall.
1693. J. Beaumont, On Burnet’s Th. Earth, II. 88. The Tone or tonical Disposition of the Organs, whereby they perform their several Functions.
1733. Cheyne, Eng. Malady, II. xii. § 2 (1734), 240. A Defect in their [Muscles] innate Power of Contraction and Tonical Nature.
2. = TONIC A. 4 a, b.
1656. Blount, Glossogr., Tonical, pertaining to tone, note, tune, or accent.
1677. Plot, Oxfordsh., 7. Tonical [Echoes], such as return the voice but once, nor that neither, except adorned with some peculiar Musical note.
1737. Gentl. Mag., VII. 9/1. Whatever Musical or Tonical Notes were expressed in the Accents of the Text.
