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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.

A peculiar, or 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.

Exhibiting interference figures without the aid of a polariscope, as certain crystals.

Same as Idioplasma.

That portion of the cell protoplasm which is the seat of all active changes, and which carries on the function of hereditary transmission; -- distinguished from the other portion, which is termed nutritive plasma. See Hygroplasm.

Repulsive by itself; as, the idiorepulsive power of heat.

l constitution or temperament; a characteristic belonging to, and distinguishing, an individual; characteristic susceptibility; idiocrasy; eccentricity. The individual mind . . . takes its tone from the idiosyncrasies of the body. I. Taylor.

Of peculiar temper or disposition; belonging to one's peculiar and individual character.

. Austin affirmed that the plain places of Scripture are sufficient to all laics, and all idiots or private persons. Jer. Taylor.

Idiocy. [R.]

Rendered idiotic; befooled. [R.] Tennyson.

Self-heating; warmed, as the body of animal, by process going on within itself.

Pertaining to, or like, an idiot; characterized by idiocy; foolish; fatuous; as, an idiotic person, speech, laugh, or action.

In a idiotic manner.

A dictionary of a peculiar dialect, or of the words and phrases peculiar to one part of a country; a glossary.

Like an idiot; foolish.

An idiom; a form, mode of expression, or signification, peculiar to a language. Scholars sometimes give terminations and idiotisms, suitable to their native language, unto words newly invented. M. Hale.

To become stupid. [R.]

Idiocy. [R.] Bp. Warburton.