oxytonousadj.

1653 H. Moseley in Ld. Brouncker tr. R. Descartes Excellent Compend. Musick To Rdr., sig. b1 A Metallist; to explore the different Contemperations of Barytonous and Oxytonous, or Grave and Acute toned Metalls, on order to the Casting of tuneable Bells, for Chimes, &c.

1654 W. Charleton Physiologia Epicuro-Gassendo-Charltoniana iii. vi. 232 Problem 6. Why is a Dissonance more easily discovered by the ear, in a Barytonous, or Base Voyce, or Tone, than in an Oxytonous or Treble? Solut. Because the Barytonous voyce is of a slow Motion, and the Oxytonous of a swift: and the sence doth ever deprehend that object whose apparence is more durable.

1796 S. Horsley On Prosodies Greek & Lat. Lang. 97 The oxyton ἐστὶ became a paroxyton in certain situations; and the same thing happened to most of the oxytonous prepositions.

1820 J. Booth Lexicon Primitive Words Greek Lang. Errata Let the young reader bear in mind, that the grave accent..should never appear upon any syllable except the last; and only upon that in Oxytonous words, where it is put instead of, and stands for the acute.

1878 Amer. Catholic Q. Rev. Apr. 268 The subjunctive forms (ikitoyan and izhichigeyan) and their contrast with the shorter and oxytonous imperative (izhichigen) is much better echoed, so to say, by the equally exact..Latin translation.

1986 P. Siptár tr. P. Stepanović Taxon. Descr. Dial. Serbs & Croats Hungary vi. 70 Ivić claims..that the ~a ending exhaustively occurs in oxytonous feminine nouns.