pant-
= Gr. παντ-, the shortened form in which παντο- ‘all-’ appears before a vowel: see panto-. The following words have pant- followed by an element with initial a-. ˈpantagogue Med. [Gr. ἄγωγος driving forth, leading], a medicine that expels all morbid matter. pantaˈmorphic a. [Gr. ἄµορϕος formless, unshapen], generally deformed. ˌpantanenceˈphalic a. Teratol. [Gr. ἀνεγκέϕαλος without brain], congenitally destitute of brain (Gould Dict. Med. 1900). pantaˈphobia [Gr. ἀϕοβία fearlessness], total absence of fear (Syd. Soc. Lex. 1893). panˈtarchic a., of or pertaining to a pantarchy. ˈpantarchy [Gr. ἀρχή rule], a state in which the rule is vested in the whole people. † panˈtarete, erron. -arite [Gr. ἀρέτη virtue], all-virtuousness. panˈtatrophy Path. [Gr. ἀτροϕία atrophy], general atrophy; so panˈtatrophous a. See also panthodic, pantisocracy.
[1811 Hooper Med. Dict., Pantagoga, medicines which expel all morbid humours.] 1854–67 C. A. Harris Dict. Med. Terminol., *Pantagogue, that which expels all morbid humours. 1893 Syd. Soc. Lex., Pantagogue, the same as Panchymagogue. |
1857 Mayne Expos. Lex., Pantamorphicus,..*pantamorphic. 1890 Billings Nat. Med. Dict., Pantamorphic, generally amorphous or deformed. |
1883 L. F. Ward Dynamic Sociol. I. 466 The cosmopolitan, or *pantarchic stage. |
1899 Fiske Cent. of Sci. viii. 217 Never did a philanthropic world⁓mender contemplate his grotesque phalanstery or *pantarchy with greater pleasure. |
1624 Heywood Gunaik. iii. 123 Of whose omniscience, *pantarite, and goodnesse, all men heretofore haue spoke too little. |
1857 Mayne Expos. Lex., Pantatrophus,..totally without nutrition or nourishment; *pantatrophous. 1893 Syd. Soc. Lex., Pantatrophous, without nutrition. |
1857 Mayne Expos. Lex., Pantatrophia,..term for complete innutrition, *pantatrophy. 1900 Gould Dict. Med., Pantatrophy. |