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τον-ικός , ή, όν,
A.of or for stretching, capable of extension, “ὄρνιθες κατὰ πτέρυγας τονικοί” Arist.PA693b12.
2. Mus., τὸ τονικὸν [χρῶμα] (opp. τὸ ἡμιτόνιον (fort. ἡμιόλιον, cf. Cleonid. Harm.7) and τὸ μαλακόν), one of the three forms of χρῶμα or chromatic scale, S.E.M.6.51.
3. of or for accents, “τονικὰ παραγγέλματα” A.D.Adv.181.9 (so περὶ τ. π., treatise by Jo.Alex.); “τὸ -κόν” A.D.Pron.35.13.
4. resulting from “τόνος” 11.4, κίνησις, of God, opp. μεταβατικῶς κινούμενος, Stoic.2.149, cf. 147, al.
5. contractile, ἐνέργεια, of a muscle, Gal.4.436; [“πέπερι] στομάχου -ώτερον” Id.6.265. Adv. “-κῶς” Id.4.435.
Henry George Liddell. Robert Scott. A Greek-English Lexicon. revised and augmented throughout by. Sir Henry Stuart Jones. with the assistance of. Roderick McKenzie. Oxford. Clarendon Press. 1940.

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