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n. [ Cf. F. allopathe. ] An allopathist. Ed. Rev. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. allopathique. ] Of or pertaining to allopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In a manner conformable to allopathy; by allopathic methods. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who practices allopathy; one who professes allopathy. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to angiopathy. [ AS ]

Angiopathic neuropathy (Med.), A condition characterized by arteritis of the blood vessels supplying neurons. [ AS ]

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

{ } a. Of or pertaining to anthropopathy. [ R. ] -- An`thro*po*path"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

The daring anthropopathic imagery by which the prophets often represent God as chiding, upbraiding, threatening. H. Rogers. [1913 Webster]

n. One who ascribes human feelings to deity. [ 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 ]

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

a. [ NL. antipathicus, Gr. &unr_; of opposite feelings. ] (Med.) Belonging to antipathy; opposite; contrary; allopathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who has an antipathy. [ R. ] “Antipathist of light.” Coleridge. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To feel or show antipathy. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [ Obs. ] Beau. & Fl. [ 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 ]

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 ]

n. [ Cf. F. apathiste. ] One who is destitute of feeling. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Apathetic; une motional. [ R. ] [ 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. ]

a. [ See Auto-, and Pathic, a. ] (Med.) Dependent upon, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

n.; pl. Bypaths A private path; an obscure way; indirect means. [ 1913 Webster ]

God known, my son,
By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways,
I met this crown. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to a range of mountains in Austro-Hungary, called the Carpathians, which partially inclose Hungary on the north, east, and south. [ 1913 Webster ]

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 ]

a. [ Gr. de`rma, -atos, skin + pa`qos suffering. ] (Med.) Of or pertaining to skin diseases, or their cure. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Dermatopathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Pertaining to deuteropathy; of the nature of deuteropathy. [ 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 ]

a. (Med.) Serving to palliate; palliative. Dunglison. [ 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. [ G. feldspath; feld field + spath spar. ] (Min.) A name given to a group of minerals, closely related in crystalline form, and all silicates of alumina with either potash, soda, lime, or, in one case, baryta. They occur in crystals and crystalline masses, vitreous in luster, and breaking rather easily in two directions at right angles to each other, or nearly so. The colors are usually white or nearly white, flesh-red, bluish, or greenish. [ 1913 Webster ]

☞ The group includes the monoclinic (orthoclastic) species orthoclase or common potash feldspar, and the rare hyalophane or baryta feldspar; also the triclinic species (called in general plagioclase) microcline, like orthoclase a potash feldspar; anorthite or lime feldspar; albite or soda feldspar; also intermediate between the last two species, labradorite, andesine, oligoclase, containing both lime and soda in varying amounts. The feldspars are essential constituents of nearly all crystalline rocks, as granite, gneiss, mica, slate, most kinds of basalt and trachyte, etc. The decomposition of feldspar has yielded a large part of the clay of the soil, also the mineral kaolin, an essential material in the making of fine pottery. Common feldspar is itself largely used for the same purpose.

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

{ , n. (Min.) See Feldspar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. See Feldspathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

n.; pl. Footpaths A narrow path or way for pedestrains only; a footway. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. (Aeronautics) the proper path for an airplane approaching a landing strip; also called glide slope. [ PJC ]