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pathic, n. and a.|ˈpæθɪk|
[ad. L. pathic-us, a. Gr. παθικός suffering, remaining passive, f. stem παθ- suffer.]
A. n.
1. A man or boy upon whom sodomy is practised; a catamite. Now rare.
1603B. Jonson Sejanus i. i, He..was the noted Pathick of the time. 1718Prideaux Connection Q. & N. Test. II. ii. 101 The first was his pathic, the second his concubine. 1795J. Macknight Apost. Epist. (1820) I. 495 The persons who suffered this abuse were called pathics, and affected the dress and behaviour of women. 1972Stedman Med. Dict. (ed. 22) 930/1 Pathic, a person who assumes the passive role in any abnormal sexual act.
2. One who suffers or undergoes something. Now rare or Obs.
1636Massinger Bashf. Lover v. i, A mere pathic to Thy devilish art. 1649Jer. Taylor Gt. Exemp. i. Disc. iii. 92 Pathicks in Devotion, suffering ravishments of Senses. 1860Illustr. Lond. News 26 May 506/2 The pathic looks like an especial goose during the operation.
B. adj.
1. That is the subject of sodomy; being, or pertaining to, a catamite. Now rare.
1657Thornley tr. Longus' Daphnis & Chloe 196 To become Gnatho's Pathic-boy. 1693Tate in Dryden's Juvenal ii. (1697) 26 Thy Form seems for the Pathick Trade design'd. 1802Gifford tr. Juvenal ii. 144 A mirror—pathic Otho's boast. 1959N. & Q. Dec. 435/2 The Pardoner's pathic role in the perverted relationship thus suggested is clearly indicated in A 691.
2. Undergoing something, passive. Also, that suffers from disease or disorder.
1857Mayne, Pathicus, remaining passive: pathic. 1902W. A. Hammond Aristotle's Psychol. p. lxviii, Desire, as Aristotle employs it, is not a purely pathic or affective element. 1940Hinsie & Shatzky Psychiatric Dict. 404/1 Pathic,..pertaining to or affected by disease or disorder. 1951S. F. Nadel Found. Social Anthropol. xi. 291 Vague states of feeling (‘pathic states’, as they have been called). 1973M. Amis Rachel Papers 148 Rachel received this idiot outpouring with a pathic nod.
3. Pertaining to suffering or disease; morbid. rare.
1853in Dunglison Med. Lex. 1893in Syd. Soc. Lex.
Hence ˈpathically adv., in a passive manner; pathicism |ˈpæθɪsɪz(ə)m|, the practice of a pathic.
1879Lewis & Short Lat. Dict., Patientia..B. In partic[ular], submission to unnatural lust, pathicism. 1934Mind XLIII. 300 The root notion..seems to be that the given must be passively, or (should I say?) pathically received. |