psychopathicadj.n.

Brit.

/ˌsʌɪkəˈpaθɪk/, U.S.

/ˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk/

Forms: see psycho- comb. form and -pathic comb. form.

Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: psycho- comb. form, -pathic comb. form.

Etymology: < psycho- comb. form + -pathic comb. form, after psychopathy n. Compare German psychopathisch (1845 (in the source translated in quot. 1847) or earlier), French psychopathique (1877), Italian psicopatico (1855), all in sense ‘of, relating to, or designating mental illness’. With the use as noun compare earlier psychopath n. N.E.D. (1909) also gives a partial pronunciation of (ps-) /ps-/.

A. adj.

a. Originally: of, relating to, or characterized by (the treatment of) mental illness. In later use: of, relating to, or designating psychopathy (antisocial personality disorder).

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psychopathic1847

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insanious1656

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psycho1945

1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 65 A public address to the psycopathic physicians [Ger. Irren-Ärzte] of Germany.

1854 J. C. Bucknill Unsoundness of Mind 121 It has always appeared to us, that the witness box is no proper place for the psychopathic physician in these cases.

1867 P. Earle (title) The psychopathic hospital of the future.

1879 L. Putzel tr. M. Rosenthal Clin. Treat. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. xxvi. 22 The frequent complication with psychopathic symptoms indicates that the cerebrum may also be involved.

1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience 157 He [sc. Bunyan] was a typical case of the psychopathic temperament, sensitive of conscience to a diseased degree.

1932 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Sept. 2/2 The court..found that Duker is afflicted with a definite mental ailment or disorder known as psychopathic personality.

1959 Mental Health Act 7 & 8 Eliz. II c. 72. i. §4 In this Act ‘psychopathic disorder’ means a persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not including subnormality of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the patient, and requires or is susceptible to medical treatment.

1977 P. Way Super-Celeste i. 53 Such men..work to please whatever passions and psychopathic urges drive them personally.

1997 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 21 Oct. f4/5 Various tools are used to diagnose psychopathic behavior, including: the international classification of diseases definition of dyssocial personality disorder; the American Psychiatric Association's definition of antisocial personality disorder; and the Hare Psychopathy Checklist.

b. Affected with mental illness or disorder, spec. psychopathy; (in general use) exhibiting antisocial, violent, or aggressive behaviour.

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1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 2 148 In criminal and psychopathic individuals [there is] a flattening of the frontal bone.

1899 W. James Talks to Teachers xiv. 164 The foreign terms ‘déséquilibré’, ‘hereditary degenerate’, and ‘psychopathic’ subject, have arisen in response to the same need.

a1953 D. Thomas Quite Early One Morning (1954) 38 These psychopathic gorillas coked to the gills have no place in Little Tim's cosmography.

1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 829/1 Rampton is a Special Hospital catering mainly for subnormal and psychopathic patients with histories of dangerous and violent behaviour.

1976 Times 4 Aug. 5/7 All we can do is protect society from them. Grossly psychopathic people cannot be befriended.

2003 S. Greenfield Tomorrow's People (2004) i. 2 That ultimate icon, from Stanley Kubrick's film 2001, the psychopathic computer, HAL.

2. Of or relating to the treatment of disease by psychic means such as hypnotism, etc. Now rare.

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1875 Spiritualist 16 Apr. 191/2 Mr. Coates, of the Psychopathic Institute, 1, Dunkeld Street, West Derby Road.

1890 Cent. Dict. Psychopathic, pertaining to the cure of the sick by psychic means.

B. n.

= psychopath n. rare.

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1890 Cent. Dict. Psychopathic n., an insane or nearly insane patient.

1896 F. P. Cobbe in Daily News 13 Apr. 7/7 They are ‘psychopathics’—a term which Prof. James, of Harvard University, employs to denote an inborn aptitude to immoral actions in any direction.

1938 Lancet 6 Aug. 312 He mistrusted the alarming estimates often made of the number of neurotics and psychopathics in our population.

1982 Jrnl. Abnormal Child Psychol. 10 123 Of three delinquent subgroups utilized, the neurotics were least empathic, the psychopathics next, and the subculturals the most empathic.

Derivatives

ˌpsychoˈpathically adv.

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psychopathically1902

1902 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity 59 30 For the psychopathically predisposed there is greater likelihood of the development of an initial delirium.

1972 Lancet 18 Nov. 1069/2 The psychopathically aggressive, the rigidly authoritarian.

1993 R. Priestley Warhammer Armies: Orcs & Goblins (BNC) 13 He amused himself by feeding Dwarf captives to Gobbla, the enormous, malodorous and psychopathically vicious Cave Squig which he kept firmly chained to his left leg.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	psychopathic
释义	psychopathicadj.n. Brit. /ˌsʌɪkəˈpaθɪk/, U.S. /ˌsaɪkəˈpæθɪk/ Forms: see psycho- comb. form and -pathic comb. form. Origin: Formed within English, by compounding. Etymons: psycho- comb. form, -pathic comb. form. Etymology: < psycho- comb. form + -pathic comb. form, after psychopathy n. Compare German psychopathisch (1845 (in the source translated in quot. 1847) or earlier), French psychopathique (1877), Italian psicopatico (1855), all in sense ‘of, relating to, or designating mental illness’. With the use as noun compare earlier psychopath n. N.E.D. (1909) also gives a partial pronunciation of (ps-) /ps-/. A. adj. 1. a. Originally: of, relating to, or characterized by (the treatment of) mental illness. In later use: of, relating to, or designating psychopathy (antisocial personality disorder). ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > psychiatry > [adjective] > treating mental disease psychopathic1847 the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] insanious1656 psychopathic1879 psycho1945 1847 H. E. Lloyd & B. G. Babington tr. E. von Feuchtersleben Princ. Med. Psychol. 65 A public address to the psycopathic physicians [Ger. Irren-Ärzte] of Germany. 1854 J. C. Bucknill Unsoundness of Mind 121 It has always appeared to us, that the witness box is no proper place for the psychopathic physician in these cases. 1867 P. Earle (title) The psychopathic hospital of the future. 1879 L. Putzel tr. M. Rosenthal Clin. Treat. Dis. Nerv. Syst. II. xxvi. 22 The frequent complication with psychopathic symptoms indicates that the cerebrum may also be involved. 1902 W. James Varieties Relig. Experience 157 He [sc. Bunyan] was a typical case of the psychopathic temperament, sensitive of conscience to a diseased degree. 1932 Sun (Baltimore) 19 Sept. 2/2 The court..found that Duker is afflicted with a definite mental ailment or disorder known as psychopathic personality. 1959 Mental Health Act 7 & 8 Eliz. II c. 72. i. §4 In this Act ‘psychopathic disorder’ means a persistent disorder or disability of mind (whether or not including subnormality of intelligence) which results in abnormally aggressive or seriously irresponsible conduct on the part of the patient, and requires or is susceptible to medical treatment. 1977 P. Way Super-Celeste i. 53 Such men..work to please whatever passions and psychopathic urges drive them personally. 1997 Hartford (Connecticut) Courant 21 Oct. f4/5 Various tools are used to diagnose psychopathic behavior, including: the international classification of diseases definition of dyssocial personality disorder; the American Psychiatric Association's definition of antisocial personality disorder; and the Hare Psychopathy Checklist. b. Affected with mental illness or disorder, spec. psychopathy; (in general use) exhibiting antisocial, violent, or aggressive behaviour. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > [adjective] > affected with deleerit1786 psychopathic1888 mental1899 wackadoo1958 wackadoodle1993 1888 Amer. Jrnl. Psychol. 2 148 In criminal and psychopathic individuals [there is] a flattening of the frontal bone. 1899 W. James Talks to Teachers xiv. 164 The foreign terms ‘déséquilibré’, ‘hereditary degenerate’, and ‘psychopathic’ subject, have arisen in response to the same need. a1953 D. Thomas Quite Early One Morning (1954) 38 These psychopathic gorillas coked to the gills have no place in Little Tim's cosmography. 1968 Brit. Jrnl. Psychiatry 114 829/1 Rampton is a Special Hospital catering mainly for subnormal and psychopathic patients with histories of dangerous and violent behaviour. 1976 Times 4 Aug. 5/7 All we can do is protect society from them. Grossly psychopathic people cannot be befriended. 2003 S. Greenfield Tomorrow's People (2004) i. 2 That ultimate icon, from Stanley Kubrick's film 2001, the psychopathic computer, HAL. 2. Of or relating to the treatment of disease by psychic means such as hypnotism, etc. Now rare. ΚΠ 1875 Spiritualist 16 Apr. 191/2 Mr. Coates, of the Psychopathic Institute, 1, Dunkeld Street, West Derby Road. 1890 Cent. Dict. Psychopathic, pertaining to the cure of the sick by psychic means. B. n. = psychopath n. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person woodman1297 madmanc1330 lunatic1377 franticc1380 madwomana1438 March harec1500 Bedlam beggar1525 fanaticc1525 bedlama1529 frenetic1528 Jack o' Bedlam1528 Tom o' Bedlam1569 crack-brain1570 madbrain1570 Tom1575 madcap1589 gelt1596 madhead1600 brainsick1605 madpash1611 non compos1628 madling1638 bedlam-man1658 bedlamerc1675 fan1682 bedlamite1691 cracka1701 lymphatic1708 shatter-brain1719 mad1729 maniaca1763 non compos mentis1765 shatter-pate1775 shatter-wit1775 insane1786 craze1831 dement1857 crazy1867 crackpot1883 loony1884 bug1885 psychopath1885 dingbat1887 psychopathic1890 ding-a-ling1899 meshuggener1900 détraqué1902 maddiea1903 nut1908 mental1913 ding1929 lakes1934 wack1938 fruitcake1942 nutty1942 barm-pot1951 nutcake1953 nutter1958 nutcase1959 nut job1959 meshuga1962 nutsy1964 headcase1965 nutball1968 headbanger1973 nutso1975 wacko1977 nut bar1978 mentalist1990 1890 Cent. Dict. Psychopathic n., an insane or nearly insane patient. 1896 F. P. Cobbe in Daily News 13 Apr. 7/7 They are ‘psychopathics’—a term which Prof. James, of Harvard University, employs to denote an inborn aptitude to immoral actions in any direction. 1938 Lancet 6 Aug. 312 He mistrusted the alarming estimates often made of the number of neurotics and psychopathics in our population. 1982 Jrnl. Abnormal Child Psychol. 10 123 Of three delinquent subgroups utilized, the neurotics were least empathic, the psychopathics next, and the subculturals the most empathic. Derivatives ˌpsychoˈpathically adv. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > degree or type of mental illness > [adverb] > psychopathy psychopathically1902 1902 Amer. Jrnl. Insanity 59 30 For the psychopathically predisposed there is greater likelihood of the development of an initial delirium. 1972 Lancet 18 Nov. 1069/2 The psychopathically aggressive, the rigidly authoritarian. 1993 R. Priestley Warhammer Armies: Orcs & Goblins (BNC) 13 He amused himself by feeding Dwarf captives to Gobbla, the enormous, malodorous and psychopathically vicious Cave Squig which he kept firmly chained to his left leg. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2007; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < adj.n.1847
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