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pathematic, a. rare.|pæθɪˈmætɪk|
[ad. Gr. παθηµατικ-ός liable to passions or emotions, f. πάθηµα what one suffers, suffering emotion, f. stem παθ-: see pathetic.]
Pertaining to the passions or emotions; caused or characterized by emotion.
1822Good Study Med. IV. 203 In the Pathematic variety [of complicated labour], the joint emotions..operative upon the patient's mind,..are bashfulness..and apprehension for her own safety. 1830Mackintosh Eth. Philos. Wks. 1846 I. 161 We find no trace..of any distinction between the percipient, and what perhaps we may venture to call the emotive, or pathematic part of human nature. 1895Pop. Sci. Monthly Jan. 384 Which..accounts for the loss of hair as a pathematic symptom.
So patheˈmatically adv.; paˌthemaˈtology, the doctrine of passions or affections of the mind.
1811–31Bentham Logic Wks. 1843 VIII. 230/1 Pathematically passive, corresponding to those corporeal impressions which are accompanied either with pleasure or pain. Ibid. App. 288/1 Pathematology: by this name may be designated the science of psychology, in so far as pleasure or pain are taken for the subject of it. 1857Mayne Expos. Lex., Pathematologia, term for the doctrine of passion or affection of the mind: pathematology. |