allopath
(ˈæləpæθ)
[a. mod.Fr. allopathe, f. allopathie allopathy, by form-assoc. with such pairs as philosophie, philosophe, astronomie, astronome; the analogy being merely apparent and opposed to the etymology, a. Gr. ἀλλοπάθος in the sense of allopath being quite impossible.]
A practitioner of allopathy.
| 1830 Edin. Rev. L. 519 The common large-dose-dispensing Allopath. 1842 Black Homœop. i. 10 The few specifics employed by allopaths. |