a. Obs. Also 7 sim-. [f. mod.L. sympathēticus: see prec. and -ICAL.]
1. = SYMPATHETIC a. 1, b, 1 c.
1639. Woodall, Treat. Plague, Wks. 360. There is a farre greater sympatheticall danger [of infection] betwixt Children, then betwixt Men and Women.
1646. Sir T. Browne, Pseud. Ep., I. iv. 16. The grosse mistakes, in the cure of many diseases, not only from … sympatheticall receits, but amulets, charms, and all incantatory applications.
1651. Wittie, trans. Primrose’s Pop. Err., IV. xlviii. 400. The weapon-salve, otherwise called the sympatheticall, magneticall, and starry oyntment.
1662. R. Mathew, Unl. Alch., § 113. 184. The powder of Sympathy, or the Sympathetical Powder, made of Roman Vitriol.
1669. W. Simpson, Hydrol. Chym., 275. There is a sympathetical combination betwixt the matrix and the stomach.
1672. Sir T. Browne, Lett. Friend, § 2. To wonder that you had not some secret … intimation [of his death] by dreams … or sympathetical insinuations.
1677. W. Harris, trans. Lemery’s Course Chym., I. xi. 143. Inks called Sympathetical.
1678. Cudworth, Intell. Syst., I. i. § 27. 29. The Sensible Idea’s of Hot and Cold, Red and green … may be easily apprehended as Modes of Cogitation, that is, of Sensation, or Sympathetical Perception in us.
1696. Tryon, Misc., Pref. 5. One Body works upon another, by a certain natural attraction and simpathetical Inclination.
1743. trans. Heister’s Surg., 189. This sort of Cure seems to be sympathetical and superstitious.
2. = SYMPATHETIC a. 2.
1848. Blackw. Mag., LXIII. 576. Their varnished boots even have a dull lustreless look that is … sympathetical with the general gloom.
3. = SYMPATHETIC a. 3.
1650. H. Brooke, Conserv. Health, 237. A sympathetical spirit … towards one another.
1753. Miss Collier, Art Torment., II. iii. 136. Where good-fellowship, good wine, and a certain sympathetical idleness, draw people together.
