† sympatheticaladj.

1639 J. Woodall Treat. Plague in Surgeons Mate (new ed.) 360 There is a farre greater sympatheticall danger [of infection] betwixt Children, then betwixt Men and Women.

1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica i. iv. 16 The grosse mistakes, in the cure of many diseases, not only from..sympatheticall receits, but amulets, charms, and all incantatory applications. View more context for this quotation

1651 R. Wittie tr. J. Primrose Pop. Errours iv. xlviii. 400 The weapon-salve, otherwise called the sympatheticall, magneticall, and starry oyntment.

1662 R. Mathews Unlearned Alchymist (new ed.) §113. 184 The powder of Sympathy, or the Sympathetical Powder, made of Roman Vitriol.

1669 W. Simpson Hydrologia Chymica 275 There is a sympathetical combination betwixt the matrix and the stomach.

1677 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. i. xi. 143 Inks called Sympathetical.

1678 R. Cudworth True Intellect. Syst. Universe i. i. 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.

a1682 Sir T. Browne Let. to Friend (1690) 3 To wonder that you had not some secret..Intimation [of his death] by Dreams..or sympathetical Insinuations.

1696 T. Tryon Misc. Pref. 5 One Body works upon another, by a certain natural attraction and simpathetical Inclination.

1743 tr. L. Heister Gen. Syst. Surg. I. i. 189 This sort of Cure seems to be sympathetical and superstitious.

1848 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 63 576 Their varnished boots even have a dull lustreless look that is..sympathetical with the general gloom.

1650 H. Brooke Υγιεινη 237 A sympathetical spirit..towards one another.

1753 J. Collier Ess. Art of Tormenting ii. iii. 136 Where good-fellowship, good wine, and a certain sympathetical idleness, draw people together.