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sympathic

sympathic adjective: sympathetic.

Adjective

sympathic (comparative more sympathic, superlative most sympathic)

  1. (obsolete) Sympathetic.
    • The Cauſe of this Diſeaſe, whether Sympathic from abroad, or Protopathic ingender’d in the Blood, is laid in a Salt, ſerous Humour lodged in the Glandules of the Skin, which have been deſcribed in our Introduction, raiſing up the Cuticle into ſmall Puſtules or Pimples, with white and ſhining Heads...1714, Daniel Turner, “Of the Itch”, in De Morbis Cutaneis. A Treatise of Diseases Incident to the Skin. […], London: […] R. Bonwicke, W. Freeman, Tim. Goodwin, […], page 34
    • The sympathic system is peculiar to all insects, but in the several orders it takes a different form: […]1836, Hermann Burmeister, translated by W[illiam] E[dward] Shuckard, A Manual of Entomology, […], London: Edward Churton, […], page 286

Forms of sympathic

comparativemore sympathic
superlativemost sympathic

Origin of sympathic

From French sympathique.

Questions about sympathic

What does sympathic mean?
Sympathic means sympathetic.
What part of speech is sympathic?
Sympathic is an adjective.

Words near sympathic in the dictionary

  1. sympatheticness
  2. sympatheticolytic
  3. sympatheticolytics
  4. sympathetics
  5. sympathetolytic
  6. sympathic
  7. sympathico-
  8. sympathicolyses
  9. sympathicolysis
  10. sympathicolytic
  11. sympathicolytics

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