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Inclined to sympathy; sympathizing. Far wiser he, whose sympathetic mind Exults in all the good of all mankind. Goldsmith.

Sympathetic.

In a sympathetic manner.

One who sympathizes; a sympathizer. [R.] Coleridge.

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.

One who sympathizes.

, but other sight instead -- a crowd Of ugly serpents! Horror on them fell, And horrid sympathy. Milton.

The sympathetic affection of one mind by the thoughts, feelings, or emotions of another at a distance, without communication through the ordinary channels of sensation. -- Tel`e*path"ic, a. -- Te*lep"a*thist, n.

Of or pertaining to a theopathy.

Capacity for religious affections or worship.

A path traveled by men or animals in towing boats; -- called also towing path.

Not having a path. Shak.

Pathless. [R.] "The smooth, unpathwayed plain." Wordsworth.

Absence or lack of sympathy.

e route taken by a party of Indians going on a warlike expedition. Schoolcraft. On the warpath, on a hostile expedition; hence, colloquially, about to attack a person or measure.

Animal pathology.

Suspension; temporary suppression. Keeping the sympathies of love and admiration in a dormant state, or state of abeyance. De Quincey.

A pathological condition opposite to that of irritation; debility; want of strength; asthenia.

Moving the emotions; fitted to excite the emotions; pathetic; touching; as, an affecting address; an affecting sight. The most affecting music is generally the most simple.

A path through the air made easy for aërial navigation by steady winds.