Ope the sacred source of sympathetic tears.
Gray.
3. (Physiol.) (a) Produced by sympathy; -- applied particularly to
symptoms or affections. See Sympathy. (b) Of or relating to the
sympathetic nervous system or some of its branches; produced by
stimulation on the sympathetic nervious system or some part of it; as,
the sympathetic saliva, a modified form of saliva, produced from some
of the salivary glands by stimulation of a sympathetic nerve fiber.
Sympathetic ink. (Chem.) See under Ink. -- Sympathetic nerve (Anat.),
any nerve of the sympathetic system; especially, the axial chain of
ganglions and nerves belonging to the sympathetic system. --
Sympathetic powder (Alchemy), a kind of powder long supposed to be able
to cure a wound if applied to the weapon that inflicted it, or even to
a portion of the bloody clothes. Dunglison. -- Sympathetic sounds
(Physics), sounds produced from solid bodies by means of vibrations
which have been communicated to them from some other sounding body, by
means of the air or an intervening solid. -- Sympathetic system
(Anat.), a system of nerves and nerve ganglions connected with the
alimentary canal, the vascular system, and the glandular organs of most
vertebrates, and controlling more or less their actions. The axial part
of the system and its principal ganglions and nerves are situated in
the body cavity and form a chain of ganglions on each side of the
vertebral column connected with numerous other ganglions and nerve
plexuses.
Sym`pa*thet"ic*al (?), a. Sympathetic.
Sym`pa*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. In a sympathetic manner.
Sym"pa*thist (?), n. One who sympathizes; a sympathizer. [R.]
Coleridge.
Sym"pa*thize (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sympathized (?); p. pr. & vb. n.
Sympathizing (?).] [F. sympathiser. See Sympathy.] 1. To have a common
feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.
The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of
the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in
meditation.
Buckminster.
2. To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by
feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the
person to be thus affected.
Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes in all their
adventures.
Addison.