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A hydropathist.

Of or pertaining to hydropathy.

One who practices hydropathy; a water-cure doctor.

The water cure; a mode of treating diseases by the copious and frequent use of pure water, both internally and externally.

The doctrine that matter is sentient. Krauth-Fleming.

One who believes in hylopathism.

Idiopathic. [R.]

Pertaining to idiopathy; characterizing a disease arising primarily, and not in consequence of some other disease or injury; -- opposed to symptomatic, sympathetic, and traumatic. -- Id`i*o*path"ic*al*ly, adv.

individual, characteristic or affection. All men are so full of their own fancies and idiopathies, that they scarce have the civility to interchange any words with a stranger. Dr. H. More.

Idle-headed; stupid. [Obs.]

Not capable of being borne; impassible. A spirit, and so impatible of material fire. Fuller.

The quality of being impatient; want of endurance of pain, suffering, opposition, or delay; eagerness for change, or for something expected; restlessness; chafing of spirit; fretfulness; passion; as, the impatience of a child or an invalid. I then, . . . Out of my grief and my impatience, Answered neglectingly. Shak. W…

Impatience. [Obs.]

A genus of plants, several species of which have very beautiful flowers; -- so called because the elastic capsules burst when touched, and scatter the seeds with considerable force. Called also touch-me-not, jewelweed, and snapweed. I. Balsamina (sometimes called lady's slipper) is the common garden balsam.…

Not patient; not bearing with composure; intolerant; uneasy; fretful; restless, because of pain, delay, or opposition; eager for change, or for something expected; hasty; passionate; -- often followed by at, for, of, and under. A violent, sudden, and impatient necessity. Jer. Taylor. Fame, impatient of extremes, decays…

In an impatient manner.

Absolute seignory or possession; the act of investing with such possession. [R.] Cotgrave.

To make lord or master; as, to impatronize one's self of a seigniory. [R.] Bacon.

Sensibility; feeling; -- opposed to apathy. [R.]

The quality or state of being incompatible; inconsistency; irreconcilableness.