a. Now rare or Obs. Also 7 sim- [ad. F. sympathique (= It., Sp. simpatico, Pg. sympathico), ad. mod.L. *sympathicus (whence also G. sympathisch), f. sympathia SYMPATHY: see -IC. Cf. idiopathic.]
† 1. = SYMPATHETIC a. 1, 1 c, 2. Obs.
1659. Tatham, London’s Tri., 7. As th’ Magnetique Courts, the Adamant With her Simphatick faculty,… So we from most parts of the Universe Are sought, rather petitioned for Commerce.
1663. Gerbier, Counsel, 11. The fit mixture of Materials, Morter, Brick and Stone, being Simpathike stuff.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., VI. 199. Whether the Cataphora be sympathick from the full and fuming Præcordia, or Idiopathick.
2. Anat. = SYMPATHETIC a. 1 d.
1836. Shuckard, trans. Burmeister’s Man. Entom., 286. The sympathic system is peculiar to all insects, but in the several orders it takes a different form.
1880. Günther, Fishes, 108. The sympathic trunks run along each side of the aorta and the back of the abdomen.
So † Sympathical a. (also erron. -pati-); whence † Sympathically adv.
1570. Dee, Math. Pref., A j. A certaine Sympathicall forewarnyng.
1652. Hermeticall Banquet, 6. Let Appetite satisfie it self with some one Dish most Sympaticall to your Stomack. Ibid., 68. Sympaticall Physick.
1684. trans. Bonet’s Merc. Compit., XVI. 580. Vapors, that Sympathically annoy the Brain.
