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pathognomic, a.|pæθəgˈnɒmɪk|
[f. pathognomy + -ic (παθογνωµικός in Gr. is said to be ‘a false form’).]
1. Of or pertaining to pathognomy, or to the signs and expression of the passions or feelings.
1681tr. Willis' Rem. Med. Wks. Vocab., Pathognomic, that moveth the affections. c1714Pope, etc. Mem. M. Scriblerus i. xi, He has the true pathognomic sign of love. 1827Carlyle Germ. Rom. I. 178 Count Ernst had a fine pathognomic eye. 1837–9Hallam Hist. Lit. (1847) III. 403 The possession of speech, the pathognomic countenance, the efficiency of the hand, a longevity beyond the lower animals.
2. = pathognomonic.
1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. vi. 185 The Pathognomick Symptome of this Disease, and that which first invaded the Patient. 1766Nat. Hist. in Ann. Reg. 100/1 Its most pathognomic symptoms. 1872Darwin Emotions viii. 205 Constant tremulous agitation..pathognomic of the earlier stages of general paralysis.
So pathoˈgnomical a. = prec. 1 and 2.
1643T. Goodwin Trial Christian's Growth 128 Such symptomes as are Pathognomicall, and proper and peculiar to them. 1874Edin. Rev. July 198 With the advance of power of pathognomical expression, coincides a certain loss of grandeur. |