*athos*

{ , a. Pertaining to, or consisting of, feldspar. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. gna`qos the jaw + &unr_; a roof. ] (Zool.) One of a pair of broad plates, developed from the outer maxillipeds of crabs, and forming a cover for the other mouth organs. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. pl. [ NL., from Gr. gna`qos the jaw + &unr_;, &unr_;, the mouth. ] (Zool.) A comprehensive division of vertebrates, including all that have distinct jaws, in contrast with the leptocardians and marsipobranchs (Cyclostoma), which lack them. [ Written also Gnathostomata. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L., from Gr. pa`qos a suffering, passion, fr. paqei^n, pa`schei^n, to suffer; cf. po`nos toil, L. pati to suffer, E. patient. ] That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry. [ 1913 Webster ]

The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe. T. Warton. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The quality or character of those emotions, traits, or experiences which are personal, and therefore restricted and evanescent; transitory and idiosyncratic dispositions or feelings as distinguished from those which are universal and deep-seated in character; -- opposed to ethos. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

2. Suffering; the enduring of active stress or affliction. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

a. (Min.) See Spathic. [ 1913 Webster ]