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Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Milton, or his writings; as, Miltonic prose.

Of, pertaining to, or uttered in, a monotone; monotonous. "Monotonical declamation." Chesterfield.

Of, pertaining to, or resembling, Neoplatonism or the Neoplatonists.

A neoplatonist.

Oxytone.

Of or pertaining to all the Teutonic races.

A follower of Plato; a Platonist.

Pure, passionless; nonsexual; philosophical. Platonic bodies, the five regular geometrical solids; namely, the tetrahedron, hexahedron or cube, octahedron, dodecahedron, and icosahedron. -- Platonic love, a pure, spiritual affection, subsisting between persons of opposite sex, unmixed with carnal desires, and regardin…

In a Platonic manner.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, the system of the Plutonists; igneous; as, the Plutonic theory. Plutonic action (Geol.), the influence of volcanic heat and other subterranean forces under pressure. -- Plutonic rocks (Geol.), granite, porphyry, and some other igneous rocks, supposed to have consolidated from a melte…

Of, pertaining to, or designating, an acid (distinct from santoninic acid) obtained from santonin as a white crystalline substance.

Of or pertaining to a semitone; consisting of a semitone, or of semitones.

Of or pertaining to an army. [R.]

A subtonic sound or element; a vocal consonant, as b, d, g, n, etc.; a subvocal.

The note next above the keynote; the second of the scale. Busby.

Of or pert. to syntony; specif., designating, or pert. to, a system of wireless telegraphy in which the transmitting and receiving apparatus are in syntony with, and only with, one another. -- Syn*ton"ic*al (#), a. --Syn*ton"ic*al*ly, adv.

Of or pertaining to building or construction; architectural.

The science, or the art, by which implements, vessels, dwellings, or other edifices, are constructed, both agreeably to the end for which they are designed, and in conformity with artistic sentiments and ideas.

Of or pertaining to any of the Teutonic languages, or the peoples who speak these languages. Teutonic languages, a group of languages forming a division of the Indo-European, or Aryan, family, and embracing the High German, Low German, Gothic, and Scandinavian dialects and languages. -- Teutonic order, a military reli…

A mode of speech peculiar to the Teutons; a Teutonic idiom, phrase, or expression; a Teutonic mode or custom; a Germanism.