Definition of Pathic

1. n. A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite.

2. a. Passive; suffering.

Definition of Pathic

1. Noun. The passive male partner in anal intercourse. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Pathic

1. a passive subject [n -S]

Medical Definition of Pathic

1. A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite. Origin: L. Pathicus, Gr, passive, fr, to suffer. Source: Websters Dictionary (01 Mar 1998)

Lexicographical Neighbors of Pathic

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Literary usage of Pathic

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. Synthetica: Being Meditations Epistemological and Ontological by Simon Somerville Laurie (1906)
"(1) Feeling, neutral and pathic—(2) Feeling in all things and all stages of Life; ... (1) Feeling Neutral and pathic. IF Absolute Being as Creative God ..."

2. Synthetica: Being Meditations Epistemological and Ontological by Simon Somerville Laurie (1906)
"(1) Feeling Neutral and pathic. IF Absolute Being as Creative God reveals Himself to us in the Universals of experience we must take the whole revelation. ..."

3. A Complete Practical Treatise on Criminal Procedure, Pleading, and Evidence by John Frederick Archbold, John Jervis, William Newland Welsby, Thomas Whitney Waterman (1853)
"(è) If committed with a boy under fourteen years of age, whether as agent,(c) or pathic,(c?) the adult alone can be convicted. Where, upon an indictment of ..."

4. Organon of Homoeopathic Medicine by Samuel Hahnemann, Constantine Hering (1836)
"... pathic unskilfulness, has been, in addition, frequently marred and enormously heightened and disfigured. * In making enquiries of this nature, ..."

5. A Dictionary of Domestic Medicine: Giving a Description of Diseases by John Henry Clarke (1901)
"... pathic medical advice to practice Homoeopathy in their own homes and families. The DICTIONARY is not intended to make homoeopathic physicians, ..."

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