Emily Dickinson Lexicon

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.

PA-THET'IC-AL-NESS, n.

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.

1. A path; usually, a narrow way to be passed on foot. – Gay.
2. 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.