sympathic, a. Now rare or Obs.
(sɪmˈpæθɪk)
Also 7 sim-.
[ad. F. sympathique (= It., Sp. simpatico, Pg. sympathico), ad. mod.L. *sympathicus (whence also G. sympathisch), f. sympathia sympathy: see -ic. Cf. idiopathic.]
† 1. = sympathetic a. 1, 1 c, 2. Obs.
| 1659 Tatham London's Tri. 7 As th' Magnetique Courts, the Adamant With her Simphatick faculty,..So we from most parts of the Universe Are sought, rather petitioned for Commerce. 1663 Gerbier Counsel 11 The fit mixture of Materials, Morter, Brick and Stone, being Simpathike stuff. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 199 Whether the Cataphora be sympathick from the full and fuming Præcordia, or Idiopathick. |
2. Anat. = sympathetic a. 1 d.
| 1836 Shuckard tr. Burmeister's Man. Entom. 286 The sympathic system is peculiar to all insects, but in the several orders it takes a different form. 1880 Günther Fishes 108 The sympathic trunks run along each side of the aorta and the back of the abdomen. |
So † symˈpathical a. (also erron. -pati-); whence † symˈpathically adv.
| 1570 Dee Math. Pref. A j, A certaine Sympathicall fore⁓warnyng. 1652 Hermeticall Banquet 6 Let Appetite satisfie it self with some one Dish most Sympaticall to your Stomack. Ibid. 68 Sympaticall Physick. 1684 tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xvi. 580 Vapors, that Sympathically annoy the Brain. |