Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. --
Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a
paternoster. Udall.
Path (pth), n.; pl. Paths (pz). [As. pÊ, pa; akin to D. pad, G. pfad,
of uncertain origin; cf. Gr. pa`tos, Skr. patha, path. √21.] 1. A
trodden way; a footway.
The dewy paths of meadows we will tread.
Dryden.
2. A way, course, or track, in which anything moves or has moved;
route; passage; an established way; as, the path of a meteor, of a
caravan, of a storm, of a pestilence. Also used figuratively, of a
course of life or action.
All the paths of the Lord are mercy and truth.
Ps. xxv. 10.
The paths of glory lead but to the grave.
Gray.
Path (p), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Pathed (pd); pr.p. & vb. n. Pathing.] To
make a path in, or on (something), or for (some one). [R.] "Pathing
young Henry's unadvised ways." Drayton.
Path, v. i. To walk or go. [R.] Shak.
Path`e*mat"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?;, fr. &?; a suffering, &?;, to suffer.]
Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering. [R.] Chalmers.
Pa*thet"ic (?), a. [L. patheticus, Gr. &?;, fr. &?;, &?;, to suffer:
cf. F. pathÈtique. See Pathos.] 1. Expressing or showing anger;
passionate. [Obs.]
2. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of
pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. "Pathetic action." Macaulay.
No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic.
E. Porter.
Pathetic muscle (Anat.), the superior oblique muscle of the eye. --
Pathetic nerve (Anat.), the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which
supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye. -- The
pathetic, a style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.
Pa*thet"ic*al (?), a. Pathetic. [R.] -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. --
Pa*thet"ic*al*ness, n.
Path"e*tism (?), n. [Cf. F. pathÈtisme.] See Mesmerism. L. Sunderland.
Path"find`er (?), n. One who discovers a way or path; one who explores
untraversed regions.
The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker.
J. Burroughs.
Path"ic (?), n. [L. pathicus, Gr. &?;, passive, fr. &?;, &?;, to
suffer] A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite.
[R.] B. Jonson.
Path"ic, a. [Gr. &?;.] Passive; suffering.
Path"less (?), a. Having no beaten path or way; untrodden;
impenetrable; as, pathless woods.
Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way.
Milton.
Path"mak`er (?), n. One who, or that which, makes a way or path.
Path"o*gene (?), n. [See Pathogenic.] (Biol.) One of a class of
virulent microˆrganisms or bacteria found in the tissues and fluids in
infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a
pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene.
Path`o*gen"e*sis (?), n. (Med.) Pathogeny.
Path`o*ge*net"ic (?), a. (Med.) Pathogenic.
Path`o*gen"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; disease + the root of &?; birth.] (Med.
& Biol.) Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a
pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.
Pa*thog"e*ny (?), n. (Med.) (a) The generation, and method of
development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is
unsettled. (b) That branch of pathology which treats of the generation
and development of disease.
Pa*thog`no*mon"ic (?), a. [Gr. &?; skilled in judging of diseases; &?;
a disease + &?; skilled: cf. F. pathognomonique. See Gnomic.] (Med.)
Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with
certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.
The true pathognomonic sign of love jealousy.
Arbuthnot.
Pa*thog"no*my (?), n. [Gr. &?; passion + &?; a judgment, fr. &?;, &?;,
to know.] Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which
human passions are indicated.
{ Path`o*log"ic (?), Path`o*log"ic*al (?), } a. [Gr. &?;: cf. F.
pathologique.] Of or pertaining to pathology. -- Path`o*log"ic*al*ly,
adv.
Pa*thol"o*gist (?), n. [Cf. F. pathologiste.] One skilled in pathology;
an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose
duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.
Pa*thol"o*gy (-j), n.; pl. Pathologies (-jz). [Gr. pa`qos a suffering,
disease + -logy: cf. F. pathologie.] (Med.) The science which treats of
diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.
Pathology is general or special, according as it treats of disease or
morbid processes in general, or of particular diseases; it is also
subdivided into internal and external, or medical and surgical
pathology. Its departments are nosology, Êtiology, morbid anatomy,
symptomatology, and therapeutics, which treat respectively of the
classification, causation, organic changes, symptoms, and cure of
diseases.
Celluar pathology, a theory that gives prominence to the vital action
of cells in the healthy and diseased function of the body. Virchow.
||Path`o*pú"la (?), n.; pl. -ias (#). [NL., from Gr. &?;; &?; passion +
||&?; to make.] (Rhet.) A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move
||the passion. Smart.
Pa"thos (?), n. [L., from Gr. pa`qos a suffering, passion, fr. &?;,
&?;, to suffer; cf. &?; toil, L. pati to suffer, E. patient.] That
quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites
emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such
as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or
expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem,
or of a cry.
The combination of incident, and the pathos of catastrophe.
T. Warton.
Path"way (?), n. A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also
used figuratively. Shak.
In the way of righteousness is life; and in the pathway thereof is
no death.
Prov. xii. 28.
We tread the pathway arm in arm.
Sir W. Scott.
Pat"i*ble (?), a. [L. patibilis, fr. pati to suffer.] Sufferable;
tolerable; endurable. [Obs.] Bailey.
Pa*tib"u*la*ry (?), a. [L. patibulum a gallows: cf. F. patibulaire.] Of
or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution. [R.] Carlyle.