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Webster 1913 Edition
Sympathetic
1.
Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing.
Far wiser he, whose
Exults in all the good of all mankind.
sympathetic
mindExults in all the good of all mankind.
Goldsmith.
2.
Produced by, or expressive of, sympathy.
Ope the sacred source of
sympathetic
tears. Gray.
3.
(Physiol.)
(a)
Produced by sympathy; – applied particularly to symptoms or affections. See
Sympathy
. (b)
Of or relating to the sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it;
as, the
. sympathetic
saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiberSympathetic ink
. (Chem.)
See under
– Ink
. Sympathetic nerve
(Anat.)
, any nerve of the sympathetic system; especially, the axial chain of ganglions and nerves belonging to the sympathetic system.
– Sympathetic powder
(Alchemy)
, a kind of powder long supposed to be able to cure a wound if applied to the weapon that inflicted it, or even to a portion of the bloody clothes.
Dunglison.
– Sympathetic sounds
(Physics)
, sounds produced from solid bodies by means of vibrations which have been communicated to them from some other sounding body, by means of the air or an intervening solid.
– Sympathetic system
(Anat.)
, a system of nerves and nerve ganglions connected with the alimentary canal, the vascular system, and the glandular organs of most vertebrates, and controlling more or less their actions. The axial part of the system and its principal ganglions and nerves are situated in the body cavity and form a chain of ganglions on each side of the vertebral column connected with numerous other ganglions and nerve plexuses.
Webster 1828 Edition
Sympathetic
SYMPATHET'IC
Definition 2024
sympathetic
sympathetic
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Alternative forms
- sympathetick (obsolete)
Adjective
sympathetic (comparative more sympathetic, superlative most sympathetic)
- Of, related to, showing, or characterized by sympathy.
- John looked very upset. I gave him a sympathetic look.
- Of or relating to similarity.
- Sympathetic magic is based on imitation or correspondence.