idiopatheticadj.

1634 ‘Philiatreus’ Gen. Pract. Med. sig. A3 ^v When the sore is alone, continuall, and without intermission..it is a signe that the indisposition is Idiopathetick.

1661 R. Lovell Πανζωορυκτολογια, sive Panzoologicomineralogia 337 If idiopathetick, it [sc. the epilepsy] is cured as before.

1712 J. Browne tr. P. Pomet et al. Compl. Hist. Druggs I. 164 It prevails against..Pains of the Head, whether Idiopathetick, or by Consent of Parts.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Sympathetic, is particularly applied to all Diseases which have two Causes; the one remote, the other near. In which Sense, the Word is opposed to Idiopathetic.

1841 Monthly Rev. 2 297 Idiopathetic intermittent fever, malignant sore throat, smallpox, measles, scarlet fever, hydrophobia, &c. have not been met with in the colony.

1964 Steroids 3 687 Such an agent would be therapeutically useful in post-puberal and idiopathetic hirsutism in women.

1981 Jrnl. Sci. Study Relig. 20 296/1 Since idiopathetic epilepsy has no known cause, why not demons there too?

1684 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Pharmaceutice Rationalis in Pract. Physick (rev. ed.) 150/2 Natural Vomiting is either Critical or Symptomatic. The latter is either Idiopathetical [L. Idiopathica], or affecting one proper part; or Symphathical.

1685 J. Flavell Πνευματολογια 384 The immediate wants and troubles of the Soul, which are Idiopathetical, are far more sharp and pinching than those it suffers upon the bodies account.

1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Ess. Pathol. Brain iii. 16 The brain, or part of it, labouring with this disease, is either primarily, and Idiopathetically, or properly, affected, or secondarily, and not but by consent, with other parts.

1896 J. H. Keene Myst. of Handwriting 59 Some coarse-fibred men of powerful digestions are idiopathetically gluttonous.

1990 Undersea Biomed. Res. 17 Suppl. 172 Pain. Oedema, Osteoporosis..may sometimes occur in a knee after an operation, trauma or..idiopathetically.