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tonalise

tonalise verb: to view or create in terms of tonalism.

Verb

tonalise (third-person singular simple present tonalises, present participle tonalising, simple past and past participle tonalised)

  1. (painting) To view or create in terms of tonalism.
    • With that, he stood rasping his beard, and frowning at her, and going back a few paces to frown and peer at her from this and that angle. Cora knew what that meant, and stood to be tonalised, relieving self-consciousness in her muscles by stretching and relaxing, and preening up her breasts in...1938, Norman Lindsay, Age of Consent, 1st Australian edition, Sydney, N.S.W.: Ure Smith, published 1962, →OCLC, page 178

Forms of tonalise

third-person singular presenttonalises
present participletonalising
past participletonalised
pasttonalised

Questions about tonalise

What does tonalise mean?
Tonalise means to view or create in terms of tonalism.
What part of speech is tonalise?
Tonalise is a verb.
What is the past tense of tonalise?
The past tense of tonalise is tonalised.

Words near tonalise in the dictionary

  1. tonal centres
  2. tonal noise
  3. tonalamatl
  4. tonalamatls
  5. Tonalea
  6. tonalise
  7. tonalised
  8. tonalises
  9. tonalising
  10. tonalism
  11. tonalist

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