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单词 psychopathic
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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).
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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.
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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.
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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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the world > health and disease > mental health > mental illness > mentally ill person > [noun] > mad person
woodman1297
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madwomana1438
March harec1500
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Tom o' Bedlam1569
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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
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headbanger1973
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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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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).
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