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

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

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

{ } 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]

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

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. ]

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 ]

a. (Med.) Serving to palliate; palliative. Dunglison. [ 1913 Webster ]

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

a. See Feldspathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Hetero- + Gr. &unr_; suffering, fr. &unr_;, &unr_;, to suffer. ] Of or pertaining to the method of heteropathy; allopathic. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. homéopathique. ] Of or pertaining to homeopathy; according to the principles of homeopathy. [ Also homœpathic. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. According to the practice of homeopathy. [ Also homœopathically. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

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

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

{ } a. [ Cf. F. idiopathique. ] (Med.) Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic. -- Id`i*o*path"ic*al*ly, adv. [1913 Webster]

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

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to myopathia. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Of or pertaining to neuropathy; of the nature of, or suffering from, nervous disease. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. (Med.) Of or pertaining to osteopathy. -- Os`te*o*path"ic*al*ly adv. [Webster 1913 Suppl.]

n. [ L. pathicus, Gr. paqiko`s, passive, fr. paqei^n, pa`schei^n, to suffer ] A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite. [ R. ] B. Jonson.
☞ The term “crime against nature” to refer to homosexual activity is now (2002) seldom used except by religious conservatives. It was in the 1913 Webster, and is left here for historical purposes. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Gr. paqiko`s. ] Passive; suffering. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Cf. F. spathique, fr. F. & G. spath spar. ] Like spar; foliated or lamellar; spathose. [ 1913 Webster ]

Spathic iron (Min.), siderite. See Siderite (a). [ 1913 Webster ]