Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Dictionary: PATH'ED – PA-TIB'U-LA-RY
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PATH'ED, pp.
Beaten into a path.
PATH-E-MAT'IC, a. [Gr. παθημα, what is suffered.]
Pertaining to or designating affection, or that which is suffered. – Mackintosh.
PATH-E-MAT'IC, a. [παθημα.]
Suffering. [1841 Addenda only.]
PA-THET'IC, or PA-THET'IC-AL, a. [Gr. παθητικος, from παθος, passion; πασχω, to suffer.]
Affecting or moving the passions, particularly pity, sorrow, grief or other tender emotion; as, a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation. – Spectator. No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic. – E. Porter.
PA-THET'IC, n.
Style or manner adapted to awaken the passions, especially tender emotions. A musician at Venice is said to have so excelled in the pathetic, as to be able to play any of his auditors into distraction. – Encyc.
PA-THET'IC-AL-LY, adv.
In such a manner as to excite the tender passions.
The quality of moving the tender passions.
PATH'E-TISM, n. [Gr. παθος.]
The agency by which one person, by manipulation, produces emotion, feeling, passion or other physical or mental effect, in the system of another; susceptibility of emotion or feeling, of any kind, from physical contact, or sympathy with the will of another. – Sunderland.
PATH'E-TIST, n.
One who exerts pathetism.
PATH'E-TIZE, v.t.
To manipulate the human body, for the purpose of inducing sleep or other physical or mental phenomena. – Sunderland.
PATH-E-TOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. παθος and λογος.]
The science which treats of the laws of pathetism. Sunderland.
PATH'FLY, n.
A fly found in foot-paths.
PATH'IC, n. [from the Gr. παθος.]
A catamite; a male that submits to the crime against nature. – Gillies.
PATH'-KEEP-ING, a.
Keeping in the path.
PATH'LESS, a.
Having no beaten way; untrodden; as, a pathless forest; a pathless coast. – Prior.
PA-THOG-NO-MON'IC, a. [Gr. παθογνωμονικος, παθος, passion or suffering, and γνωμων, from γινωσκω, to know.]
Indicating that which is inseparable from a disease, being found in that and in no other; hence, indicating that by which a disease may be certainly known; characteristic, as pathognomonic symptoms.
PA-THOG'NO-MY, n. [Gr. παθος and γνωμη; signification.]
Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated. – Good.
PATH-O-LOG'IC, or PATH-O-LOG'IC-AL, a. [See Pathology.]
Pertaining to pathology.
PATH-O-LOG'IC-AL-LY, adv.
In the manner of pathology.
PA-THOL'O-GIST, n.
One who treats of pathology.
PA-THOL'O-GY, n. [Gr. παθος, passion, suffering, and λογος, discourse.]
That part of medicine which explains the nature of diseases, their causes and symptoms; or the doctrine of the causes and nature of diseases, comprehending nosology, etiology, symptomatology, and therapeutics. – Encyc. Coxe.
PA'THOS, n. [Gr. from πασχω, to suffer.]
Passion; warmth or vehemence, in a speaker; or in language, that which excites emotions and passions. – Mason.
PATH'WAY, n.
- A path; usually, a narrow way to be passed on foot. – Gay.
- A way; a course of life. – Prov xii.
PAT'I-BLE, a. [L. patibilis, from patior, to suffer.]
Sufferable; tolerable; that may be endured. [Not used.] – Dict.
PA-TIB'U-LA-RY, a. [Fr. patibulaire, from L. patibulum, a gallows.]
Belonging to the gallows, or to execution on the cross. – Dict.