*pathy*

n. [ Gr. &unr_; other + &unr_; suffering, &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer: cf. G. allopathie, F. allopathie. See Pathos. ] That system of medical practice which aims to combat disease by the use of remedies which produce effects different from those produced by the special disease treated; -- a term invented by Hahnemann to designate the ordinary practice, as opposed to homeopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

1. (Med.) Neuropathy of the neurons innervating blood vessels. Called also Angioneurosis, Vasomotor neurosis, Vasoneurosis. [ AS ]

2. (Med) Angiopathic neuropathy. [ AS ]

n. [ Angio- + Gr. pa`qos disease. ] (Med.) Disease of the vessels, esp. the blood vessels. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

{ } n. [ Gr. &unr_;; 'a`nqrwpos man + &unr_; suffering, affection, passion, &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] The ascription of human feelings or passions to God, or to a polytheistic deity. [ 1913 Webster ]

In its recoil from the gross anthropopathy of the vulgar notions, it falls into the vacuum of absolute apathy. Hare. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Antipathies [ L. antipathia, Gr. 'antipa`qeia; 'anti` against + paqei^n to suffer. Cf. F. antipathie. See Pathos. ] 1. Contrariety or opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. [ 1913 Webster ]

Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Natural contrariety; incompatibility; repugnancy of qualities; as, oil and water have antipathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

A habit is generated of thinking that a natural antipathy exists between hope and reason. I. Taylor. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ Antipathy is opposed to sympathy. It is followed by to, against, or between; also sometimes by for. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Hatred; aversion; dislike; disgust; distaste; enmity; ill will; repugnance; contrariety; opposition. See Dislike. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Apathies [ L. apathia, Gr. &unr_;; 'a priv. + &unr_;, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer: cf. F. apathie. See Pathos. ] Want of feeling; privation of passion, emotion, or excitement; dispassion; -- applied either to the body or the mind. As applied to the mind, it is a calmness, indolence, or state of indifference, incapable of being ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. “The apathy of despair.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. [ 1913 Webster ]

According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascendency of reason. Fleming. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ In the first ages of the church, the Christians adopted the term to express a contempt of earthly concerns. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Insensibility; unfeelingness; indifference; unconcern; stoicism; supineness; sluggishness. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; joint + &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] (Med.) Any disease of the joints. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Cerebrum + Gr. &unr_; suffering. ] (Med.) A hypochondriacal condition verging upon insanity, occurring in those whose brains have been unduly taxed; -- called also brain fag. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. destruction of tissue by freezing and characterized by tingling, blistering and possibly gangrene.
Syn. -- frostbite. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Gr. ky`anos a dark blue substance + pa`qos affection. ] (Med.) A disease in which the body is colored blue in its surface, arising usually from a malformation of the heart, which causes an imperfect arterialization of the blood; blue jaundice. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL. deuteropathia, fr. Gr. &unr_; second + &unr_; suffering, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer: cf. F. deutéropathie. ] (Med.) A sympathetic affection of any part of the body, as headache from an overloaded stomach. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Dispathies [ Pref. dis- + Gr. &unr_; passion. See Pathos. ] Lack of sympathy; want of passion; apathy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

Many discrepancies and some dispathies between us. Southey. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Lack of sympathy; want of interest; indifference. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Echo + -pathy, as in homeopathy. ] (Med.) A morbid condition characterized by automatic and purposeless repetition of words or imitation of actions. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n. [ Electro- + Gr. pa`qos suffering. ] (Med.) The treatment of disease by electricity. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; of contrary properties or affections; 'enanti`os opposite + &unr_; suffering, affection, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] 1. An opposite passion or affection. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) Allopathy; -- a term used by followers of Hahnemann, or homeopathists. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. 'egke`falos the brain + pa`schein, paqei^n, to suffer. ] (Med.) Any disease or symptoms of disease referable to disorders of the brain; as, lead encephalopathy, the cerebral symptoms attending chronic lead poisoning. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; intestine + &unr_; suffering. ] (Med.) Disease of the intestines. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; comfort, happy condition of the soul. See Eu-, and Pathetic. ] Right feeling. [ R. ] Harris.

n. [ See Heteropathic. ] (Med.) That mode of treating diseases, by which a morbid condition is removed by inducing an opposite morbid condition to supplant it; allopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; likeness of condition or feeling; &unr_; like (fr. &unr_; same; cf. Same) + &unr_; to suffer: cf. F. homéopathie. See Pathos. ] (Med.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. [ Written also homœopathy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a., n., n. Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Hydro-, 1 + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Idiopathies [ Gr. &unr_;; 'i`dios proper, peculiar + &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer: cf. F. idiopathie. ] 1. A peculiar, or individual, characteristic or affection. [ 1913 Webster ]

All men are so full of their own fancies and idiopathies, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) A morbid state or condition not preceded or occasioned by any other disease; a primary disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Iso- + Gr. &unr_; suffering. ] (Med.) (a) The system which undertakes to cure a disease by means of the virus of the same disease. (b) The theory of curing a diseased organ by eating the analogous organ of a healthy animal. Mayne. (c) The doctrine that the power of therapeutics is equal to that of the causes of disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; motion + pa`qos suffering. ] (Med.) See Kinesiatrics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Leuco- + Gr. pa`schein, paqei^n to suffer. ] The state of an albino, or of a white child of black parents. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_;; mo`nos alone + &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] Suffering or sensibility in a single organ or function. -- Mon`o*path"ic, a. [1913 Webster]

n. [ L. motor a mover + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] (Med.) same as Kinesiatrics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Same as Myopathia. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. A drugless method of treatment based on the belief that disease symptoms arise from problems with ligaments and connective tissues. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

n. [ Neuro- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] (Med.) An affection of the nervous system or of a nerve. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Osteo- + Gr. pa`qos suffering. ] (Med.) (a) Any disease of the bones. [ R. ] (b) A system of treatment based on the theory that diseases are chiefly due to deranged mechanism of the bones, nerves, blood vessels, and other tissues, and can be remedied by manipulations of these parts. Modern practitioners use the therapeutic and diagnostic techniques of modern medicine as well as manipulative procedures. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

n. [ Oto- + Gr. paqei^n to suffer. ] (Med.) A diseased condition of the ear. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Psycho- + Gr. &unr_;, &unr_;. ] (Med.) Mental disease. See Psychosis, 2. -- Psy`cho*path"ic, a. -- Psy*chop"a*thist, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. somnus sleep + Gr. &unr_; a suffering of the body, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] Sleep from sympathy, or produced by mesmerism or the like. [ Written also somnopathy. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Somnipathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Sympathies [ F. sympathie, L. sympathia, Gr. &unr_;; sy`n with + &unr_; suffering, passion, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. See Syn-, and Pathos. ] 1. Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

They saw, but other sight instead -- a crowd
Of ugly serpents! Horror on them fell,
And horrid sympathy. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion. [ 1913 Webster ]

I value myself upon sympathy, I hate and despise myself for envy. Kames. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. (Physiol. & Med.) (a) The reciprocal influence exercised by organs or parts on one another, as shown in the effects of a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain. (b) The influence of a certain psychological state in one person in producing a like state in another. In the original 1890 work, sense (b) was described as: “That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.” [ Webster 1913 Suppl. +PJC ]

5. A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

6. Similarity of function, use office, or the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

The adverb has most sympathy with the verb. Earle. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Pity; fellow-feeling; compassion; commiseration; tenderness; condolence; agreement. -- Sympathy, Commiseration. Sympathy is literally a fellow-feeling with others in their varied conditions of joy or of grief. This term, however, is now more commonly applied to a fellow-feeling with others under affliction, and then coincides very nearly with commiseration. In this case it is commonly followed by for; as, to feel sympathy for a friend when we see him distressed. The verb sympathize is followed by with; as, to sympathize with a friend in his distresses or enjoyments. “Every man would be a distinct species to himself, were there no sympathy among individuals.” South. See Pity. [ 1913 Webster ]

Fault,
Acknowledged and deplored, in Adam wrought
Commiseration. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; far off + &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation. The existence of this ability has not been proven scientifically.-- Tel`e*path"ic, a. -- Te*lep"a*thist, n. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

n. [ Gr. &unr_; God + &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer, feel. ] Capacity for religious affections or worship. [ 1913 Webster ]