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n. One versed in æsthetics. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The doctrine of æsthetics; æsthetic principles; devotion to the beautiful in nature and art. Lowell. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Pertaining to the office of an agonothete. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ a. (Med.) (a) Capable of causing anesthesia; as, anæsthetic agents. (b) Characterized by, or connected with, anesthesia; as, an anæsthetic effect or operation. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

‖ AS, n. (Med.) A substance which produces anesthesia, as chloroform, ether, etc. [ 1913 Webster + AS ]

‖n., /mhw>, a. Same as Anæsthesia, Anæsthetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Having a natural contrariety, or constitutional aversion, to a thing; characterized by antipathy; -- often followed by to. Fuller. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Pertaining to antithesis, or opposition of words and sentiments; containing, or of the nature of, antithesis; contrasted. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. By way antithesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

pos>a. [ See Apathy. ] Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless. a woman who became active rather than apathetic as she grew older [ 1913 Webster ]

2. showing a lack of interest or concern; indifferent. an apathetic audience
Syn. -- indifferent [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In an apathetic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having the character of bathos. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. of or pertaining to biosynthesis. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

a. [ Gr. ko`smos universe + &unr_;&unr_;&unr_; to place or arrange. ] (Metaph.) Assuming or positing the actual existence or reality of the physical or external world. [ 1913 Webster ]

Cosmothetic idealists (Metaph.), those who assume, without attempting to prove, the reality of external objects as corresponding to, and being the ground of, the ideas of which only the mind has direct cognizance. [ 1913 Webster ]

The cosmothetic idealists . . . deny that mind is immediately conscious of matter. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to, or dependent on, a diathesis or special constitution of the body; as, diathetic disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. 'enqetiko`s fit for inserting; 'en in + tiqe`nai to place. ] (Med.) Caused by a pathogenic organism implanted in the system; as, an enthetic disease like syphilis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. épenthétique. ] (Gram.) Inserted in the body of a word; as, an epenthetic letter or sound. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_; added. ] Pertaining to, or abounding with, epithets. “In epithetic measured prose.” Lloyd. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; a., a., n. etc. Same as æsthete, æsthetic, æsthetical, æsthetics, etc. [ 1913 Webster ]

/mhw>, n. [ Gr. &unr_; perceptive, esp. by feeling, fr. &unr_; to perceive, feel: cf. G. ästhetik, F. esthétique. ] The theory or philosophy of taste; the science of the beautiful in nature and art; esp. that which treats of the expression and embodiment of beauty by art. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;; "ype`r over + tiqe`nai to place.] Exaggerated; excessive; hyperbolical. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]

Hyperthetical or superlative . . . expression. Chapman. [1913 Webster]

{ } a. [ L. hypotheticus, Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. hypothétique. ] Characterized by, or of the nature of, an hypothesis; conditional; assumed without proof, for the purpose of reasoning and deducing proof, or of accounting for some fact or phenomenon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Causes hypothetical at least, if not real, for the various phenomena of the existence of which our experience informs us. Sir W. Hamilton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Hypothetical baptism (Ch. of Eng.), baptism administered to persons in respect to whom it is doubtful whether they have or have not been baptized before. Hook.

-- Hy`po*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. South. [1913 Webster]

a. Idiopathic. [ R. ]

{ }, a. Of, pertaining to, or involving, kinaesthesia. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

See kinaesthesia, kinaesthesis, and kinaesthetic. [ PJC ]

n. The ability to feel movements of the limbs and body.
Syn. -- kinesthesis, kinaesthesis, kinesthesia, kinaesthesia, muscle sense, sense of movement. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to metathesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Legislative; enacting laws; as, a nomothetical power. [ R. ] Bp. Barlow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. See Para-, and Synthetic. ] Formed from a compound word. “Parasynthetic derivatives.” Dr. Murray. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to parathesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Cf. Gr. pare`nqetos. ] 1. Of the nature of a parenthesis; pertaining to, or expressed in, or as if in, a parenthesis; as, a parenthetical clause; a parenthetic remark; a parenthetical style. [ wns=1 ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A parenthetical observation of Moses himself. Hales. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Using or containing parentheses. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Added within parentheses to amplify or explain; as, parenthetical remarks. [ wns=2 ] [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a parenthetical manner; by way of parenthesis; by parentheses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. patheticus, Gr. paqhtiko`s, fr. paqei^n, pa`schein, to suffer: cf. F. pathétique. See Pathos. ] 1. Expressing or showing anger; passionate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. “Pathetic action.” Macaulay. [ 1913 Webster ]

No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic. E. Porter. [ 1913 Webster ]

Pathetic muscle (Anat.), the superior oblique muscle of the eye. --
Pathetic nerve (Anat.), the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye. --
The pathetic, a style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pathetic. [ R. ] -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Poly- + synthetic. ] Characterized by polysynthesis; agglutinative. [ 1913 Webster ]

Polysynthetic twinning (Min.), repeated twinning, like that of the triclinic feldspar, producing fine parallel bands in alternately reversed positions. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Polysynthesis. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. Gr. &unr_; disposed to add, &unr_; put on. ] Of or pertaining to prosthesis; prefixed, as a letter or letters to a word. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_;. ] Of or pertaining to prothesis; as, a prothetic apparatus. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ See Sympathy, and cf. Pathetic. ] 1. Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. [ 1913 Webster ]

Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind
Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears. Gray. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Physiol.) (a) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See Sympathy. (b) Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as, the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber. [ 1913 Webster ]

Sympathetic ink. (Chem.) See under Ink. --
Sympathetic nerve (Anat.), any nerve of the sympathetic system; especially, the axial chain of ganglions and nerves belonging to the sympathetic system. --
Sympathetic powder (Alchemy), a kind of powder long supposed to be able to cure a wound if applied to the weapon that inflicted it, or even to a portion of the bloody clothes. Dunglison. --
Sympathetic sounds (Physics), sounds produced from solid bodies by means of vibrations which have been communicated to them from some other sounding body, by means of the air or an intervening solid. --
Sympathetic system (Anat.), a system of nerves and nerve ganglions connected with the alimentary canal, the vascular system, and the glandular organs of most vertebrates, and controlling more or less their actions. The axial part of the system and its principal ganglions and nerves are situated in the body cavity and form a chain of ganglions on each side of the vertebral column connected with numerous other ganglions and nerve plexuses. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Sympathetic. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a sympathetic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. [ Gr. &unr_;: cf. F. synthétique. ] 1. Of or pertaining to synthesis; consisting in synthesis or composition; as, the synthetic method of reasoning, as opposed to analytical. [ 1913 Webster ]

Philosophers hasten too much from the analytic to the synthetic method; that is, they draw general conclusions from too small a number of particular observations and experiments. Bolingbroke. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Chem.) Artificial. Cf. Synthesis, 2. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Zool.) Comprising within itself structural or other characters which are usually found only in two or more diverse groups; -- said of species, genera, and higher groups. See the Note under Comprehensive, 3. [ 1913 Webster ]

Synthetic language, or
Synthetical language, an inflectional language, or one characterized by grammatical endings; -- opposed to analytic language. R. Morris. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a synthetic manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ } a. Of or pertaining to a theopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. &unr_; fit for placing, fr. &unr_; to set, lay down. See Thesis. ] Laid down; absolute or positive, as a law. Dr. H. More. [ 1913 Webster ]