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A line with a row of hooks and bead Paternoster pump, Paternoster wheel, a chain pump; a noria. -- Paternoster while, the space of time required for repeating a paternoster. Udall.

A religious as well as a secular designation applied to rulers of some of the city states of ancient Chaldea, as Lagash or Shirpurla, who were conceived to be direct representatives of the tutelary god of the place.

A trodden way; a footway. The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering. [R.] Chalmers.

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…

Pathetic. [R.] -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ness, n.

See Mesmerism. L. Sunderland.

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs.

A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite. [R.] B. Jonson.

Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods. Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way. Milton.

One who, or that which, makes a way or path.

tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene.

Pathogeny.

Pathogenic.

Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.

The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.

lly or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom. The true pathognomonic sign of love jealousy. Arbuthnot.

Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

Of or pertaining to pathology. -- Path`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

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.