sympathic

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English

Etymology

From French sympathique.[1]

Adjective

sympathic (comparative more sympathic, superlative most sympathic)

  1. (obsolete) Sympathetic.
    • 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 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, which being rub’d in ſcratching, ouze out a clear Water and then dry up again with a Scab; […]
    • 1836, Hermann Burmeister, translated by W[illiam] E[dward] Shuckard, A Manual of Entomology, , London: Edward Churton, , page 286:
      The sympathic system is peculiar to all insects, but in the several orders it takes a different form: […]
    • 1880, Albert C[harles] L[ewis] G[otthilf] Günther, “Neurology”, in An Introduction to the Study of Fishes, Edinburgh: Adam and Charles Black, page 108:
      The sympathic trunks run along each side of the aorta and the back of the abdomen into the hæmal canal; […]

References

  1. ^ “sympathic, adj.”, in OED Online Paid subscription required⁠, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, launched 2000.

Interlingua

Pronunciation

Adjective

sympathic (comparative plus sympathic, superlative le plus sympathic)

  1. sympathetic
  2. cute; likable; attractive
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