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-pathic
- a combining form occurring in adjectives that correspond to nouns ending in -pathy:
psychopathic.
pathic
/ ˈæθɪ /
noun
- a catamite
- a person who suffers; victim
adjective
- of or relating to a catamite
- of or relating to suffering
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yvlog History and Origins
Origin of -pathic1
C17: via Latin from Greek pathikos passive; see pathos
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Example Sentences
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Lungs affected by idiopathic pulmonary fibrosis become scarred, losing function.
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Pathic, path′ik, adj. pertaining to disease.—ns.
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He becomes Owen's secretary, engulfs himself in an almost pathic loyalty-love for his boss, and has become an English Justice by the time Glendower dies.
The characters: a set of spectacularly pathic Nazi officers, and some no less spectacular democratic aliens.
Most readable, least notable, is a horror study in which a piteous, pathic U. S. jazz-player meets a fetid little Cockney girl, blunders into desperate trouble through circumstantial evidence.
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