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† sympaˈthetical, a. Obs.
Also 7 sim-.
[f. mod.L. sympathēticus: see prec. and -ical.]
1. = sympathetic a. 1, 1 b, 1 c.
1639Woodall Treat. Plague Wks. 360 There is a farre greater sympatheticall danger [of infection] betwixt Children, then betwixt Men and Women. 1646Sir 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. 1651Wittie tr. Primrose's Pop. Err. iv. xlviii. 400 The weapon-salve, otherwise called the sympatheticall, magneticall, and starry oyntment. 1662R. Mathew Unl. Alch. §113. 184 The powder of Sympathy, or the Sympathetical Powder, made of Roman Vitriol. 1669W. Simpson Hydrol. Chym. 275 There is a sympathetical combination betwixt the matrix and the stomach. 1672Sir T. Browne Let. Friend §2 To wonder that you had not some secret..intimation [of his death] by dreams..or sympathetical insinuations. 1677W. Harris tr. Lemery's Course Chym. i. xi. 143 Inks called Sympathetical. 1678Cudworth 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. 1696Tryon Misc. Pref. 5 One Body works upon another, by a certain natural attraction and simpathetical Inclination. 1743tr. Heister's Surg. 189 This sort of Cure seems to be sympathetical and superstitious.
2. = sympathetic a. 2.
1848Blackw. Mag. LXIII. 576 Their varnished boots even have a dull lustreless look that is..sympathetical with the general gloom.
3. = sympathetic a. 3.
1650H. Brooke Conserv. Health 237 A sympathetical spirit..towards one another. 1753J. Collier Art Torment ii. iii. 136 Where good-fellowship, good wine, and a certain sympathetical idleness, draw people together. |