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theopathetic, a. (n.)|θiːəʊpəˈθɛtɪk|
[f. theopathy, after pathetic.]
Of, pertaining to, or characterized by theopathy: see quots.
1748Hartley Observ. Man ii. iii. §7. 316 To deduce practical Rules concerning the Theopathetic Affections, Faith, Fear, Gratitude, Hope, Trust, Resignation, and Love. 1830W. Taylor Hist. Surv. Germ. Poetry II. 5 All these publications..tend to assuade a benevolent sensibility, theopathetic affections, and evangelical doctrines. 1856R. A. Vaughan Mystics (1860) I. i. v. 27 There are three kinds of mysticism, theopathetic, theosophic, theurgic. Ibid. 31 The mystic of the theopathetic species is content to contemplate, to feel, or to act, suffering under Deity, in his sublime passivity. 1878Dowden Stud. Lit. 197 Studying the phenomena of morbid theopathetic emotion.
b. n. (See quot.)
1860Gardner Faiths World II. 899/2 Theopathetics, those mystics who have resigned themselves more or less passively to an imagined divine manifestation. |