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Having a natural contrariety; adverse; antipathetic. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

opposition in feeling; settled aversion or dislike; repugnance; distaste. Inveterate antipathies against particular nations, and passionate attachments to others, are to be avoided. Washington.

Void of feeling; not susceptible of deep emotion; passionless; indifferent.

In an apathetic manner.

One who is destitute of feeling.

Apathetic; une motional. [R.]

ing ruffled or roused to active interest or exertion by pleasure, pain, or passion. "The apathy of despair." Macaulay. A certain apathy or sluggishness in his nature which led him . . . to leave events to take their own course. Prescott. According to the Stoics, apathy meant the extinction of the passions by the ascend…

Native phosphate of lime, occurring usually in six-sided prisms, color often pale green, transparent or translucent.

With quick beating or palpitation; pitapat. Congreve.

To cut off or drop; as, to apocopate a word, or the last letter, syllable, or part of a word.

Shortened by apocope; as, an apocopate form.

Shortening by apocope; the state of being apocopated.

The office of an archbishop; an archbishopric.

Any disease of the joints.

Birdcatching; fowling. [Obs.] Blount.

n, or due or relating to, the structure and characteristics of the diseased organism; endopathic; as, an autopathic disease; an autopathic theory of diseases.

A baldheaded person. Shak.

Destitute of hair on the head; baldheaded. Shak.

To soil by spattering; to sprinkle, esp. with dirty water, mud, or anything which will leave foul spots or stains.

A private path; an obscure way; indirect means. God known, my son, By what bypaths, and indirect crooked ways, I met this crown. Shak.