paternoster 
He . . . saw through the osiers the hoary old profligate 
with hi* fHitrriK'nIi-r pulling the perch out an fa*t :i^ he 
COUld (Jilt IliH line ill. //. A'l'nv'.'V, Kavrn^l.oe, lliv. 
5f. Prof am' cxpli'tivi-s; profanity. [Humor- 
ous.] Devil's paternoster'. See the quotation. 
Km- an miiche an they dar nut openly wlthseye the co- 
mailndemcntzof htr tmvcrcynH, \ rt \\.,1 theyReyn harm, antl 
grucehe and nun mure privily, for verray dewpit, whiche 
uoi.t.s turn r]i pen the devtlcg jtateriiruttrr, though so he 
that the devt'l lie hadde never paternoster, hilt that lewed 
folk gcven it swlc.li a name. Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 
Fenny or paternoster). See penny. - To say an ape's 
paternostert. See ape. 
paternoster-pump (pa'ter-nos'ter-pump), n. 
A chum-pump : so called from the resemblance 
of the buttons on the chain to rosary-beads. 
paternoster-wheel (pa'ter-nos'ter-hwel), n. 
A chain-bucket apparatus for raising water; a 
chain-pump. 
Patersonia (pat-er-so'ni-ft), . [NL. (B. 
Hi-own, 1810), after Col. W. "Taterson, an Eng- 
lish traveler.] A genus of monocotyledonous 
plants of the order Iridex, characterized by 
twin terminal snathes, slender perianth-tube, 
the three outer lobes being broad and spreai I i 1 1^'. 
and the three inner small and erect. There are 
10 species, all Australian. They produce two-ranked grafts- 
like leaves from a short rootstock, and several or many 
flowers, two, or sometimes many, In every spathe, blue or 
purple and of much beauty, hut very quickly perishing. 
They arc known in Australia aa the trild fay or purple lily, 
and many are now cultivated in gardens. 
patetico (pA-tS'ti-ko), a. [It., = E. /mtlutii-.] 
Pathetic : in music, noting a passage to be ren- 
dered in a pathetic manner. 
path (pith), n. [< ME. path, peth, < A.S,.pxth 
./'/""',, ,.--,., ------ 
pfat, G. ptarl, a path, way; not in Scand. or 
Goth. ; cf . L. pans ( font-), a bridge (of any kind), 
prob. orig. a 'path,' ' footway ' ; Gr. n-drof, a path, 
way (irarf ii>, walk) ; = Skt. panthan (stem in some 
cases pathi, path) = Zend path, patltan, a path, 
way. Cf. Russ. puti, way, road. The Teut. 
word cannot be cognate with the Gr., Skt., etc. 
(Gr. mirof would require a Teut. *fath) if con- 
nected at all, it must have been borrowed at a 
very early period, mediately from the Gr. or 
immediately from a " Scythian " source. Cf. 
ii, supposed to have been borrowed in early 
times under similar conditions.] 1. A way 
beaten or trodden by the feet of men or beasts ; 
a track formed incidentally by passage or traf- 
fic between places rather than expressly made 
to accommodate traffic ; a narrow or unimpor- 
tant road ; a footway ; hence, in a more general 
sense, any road, way, or route. 
The seite is a path of pees ; ge, thorw the pas of Altoun 
Pouerte myste passe with-oute peril of robbynge. 
Fieri Ploicman (BX xiv. 300. 
4327 
patht (path), v. [< path. n.] I. trang. 1. To 
1 1 en, I; wall; or go in; follow. 
And that the worlde might read them as I ment, 
I left this value, t-i palh the vertuuus wales. 
if. Whetxtone, Remembrance of Uaacoigne (ed. Arher). 
Where, from the neighbouring hills, her paMaitc \Vc> doth 
path. Orayton, Polyolbion, II. M. 
2. To mark out a path for; guide. 3. To pave. 
Andalle theStretes also ben pathedttt the same Stones. 
Mandeeille, Travels, p. 307. 
II. in trans. To go as in a path; walk abroad. 
For If thou path, thy natlue semblance on, 
Not Krebus itselfe were ilimnie enough 
To hide thee from preuentlon. 
Shot., J. C. (folio 123), II. 1. 83. 
I Some commentators, Instead of path, suggest had ft, march, 
vttt.pau, or pace.] 
Pathan (pa-than'), . A person of Afghan race 
settled in Hindustan, or one of kindred race in 
eastern Afghanistan. 
During the next three reigns the valley rendered an un- 
willing allegiance to the central authority, and In the reign 
of Aurangceb the Pathant succeeded in freeing themselves 
from Mogul supremacy. JSncyc. Brit., XVIII. 6H4. 
pathematic (path-e-mat'ik), a. [< Gr. iro%/a- 
rmof, liable to suffering or misfortune, < itaSri(ta, 
suffering, any passive experience, < iradelv, 2d 
aor. of iraaxtiv, suffer, endure: see patho:,.] 
Pertaining to or designating emotion or that 
which is suffered. Chalmers. [Rare.] 
pathetic (pa-thet'ik), a. and n. [< OF. pathe- 
tique, F. paihetique = Sp. patetico = I'g.pathc- 
tico = It. patetico, < L. patheticux, < Gr. ira- 
Or/riKof, subject to feeling or passion, sensitive, 
also sensuous, impassioned, < varh/ro^, subject 
to suffering, < iraSclv, 2d aor. of iraoxeiv, suffer, 
endure: see pathos.} I. a. If. Expressing or 
showing passion; passionate. 
Yet by the way renews at every station 
Her cordial Thanks and her pathetict vows. 
J. Beaumont, Psyche, 11. 190. 
2. Full of pathos ; affecting or moving the feel- 
ings ; exciting pity, sorrow, grief, or other ten- 
der emotion; affecting: as, a pathetic song or 
discourse ; pathetic expostulation. 
Tls pitiful . . . 
To break a jest, when pity would Inspire 
Pathetic exhortation. Comfit, Task, II. 49). 
The effect of his discourses was heightened by a noble 
figure and by pathetic action. ilncaulay. 
3. In anat., trochlear: in designation of or ref- 
erence to the fourth cranial nerve. 
II. n. A trochlear or pathetic nerve ; a pa- 
theticus. Pathetic nerves, in anat.. the trochlear 
nerves. See cuts under brain and eneephaltm. 
pathetical (pa-thet'i-kal), a. \<pathetic + -al.] 
Same 
Every one lots forth his sprite, 
In the church-way paths to glide. 
Shale., M. N. D., v. 1. 888. 
He left the barren-beaten thoroughfare, 
Chose the green path that show'd the rarer foot. 
Tennymn, Lancelot and Elaine. 
2. The way, course, or track which an animal 
or any other thing follows in the air, in water, 
or in space : as, the path of a fish in the sea or 
of a bird in the air; the path of a planet or 
comet; Hie path of a meteor. 
There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the 
vulture's eye hath not seen. Job xxvlii. 7. 
The stream adown its hazelly path 
Was rushing by the ruln'd wa's. 
i:i'i;i.i. A Vision. 
3. Figuratively, course in life; course of ac- 
tion, conduct, or procedure. 
All the fxit /i of the Lord are mercy and truth unto such 
as keep his covenant. Ps. xxv. 10. 
I'll trust my Ood, and him alone pursue ; 
His law shall be my ixitli ; his heavenly light, inv clue. 
Quarlet, Emblems, iv. -1. 
The paths of glory lend but to the grave. Gray, Elegy. 
In the latter years of Queen Anne the shadow of Crom- 
well fell darkly across the path of Marlborough. 
Lecky, Eng. in Ibth Cent. i. 
Aggregate path, in meeh. see aggregate. Beaten 
path, a Paul frequently traveled over; hence, a well- 
known, plain, or customary path or course. 
The learned Dr. I'ocncke, as far as I know, is the first 
Roropem traveller that ventured to go out of the beaten 
path, and look for Memphis at Motrahenny and Mohan- 
lllll >- Bruce, Source of the Nile, 1. 6R. 
Free path, the distance which a molecule of a gas trav- 
erses without encountering other molecules. The mean 
free ;(A of the molecules of hydrogen under normal con- 
ditions of pressure and temperature has been estimated 
a- ... .' , millimeter i.i/'i.rvf/i See </(?.-- irreconcila- 
ble paths. See irreeanrUable. Path Of integration. 
See tntegration.-To break a path, cross one*s path, 
See the verbs. =Syn, 1 ami 3, Track, Trail, etc. See 
Sweet invocation of a child ; most pretty and pathetical. 
5Ao*., L. L. L., L 2. 103. 
This very word "good" implies a description in itself 
more pithy, more pathetical, than by any familiar exempli- 
fication can be made manifest. Ford, Line of Life. 
pathetically (pa-thet'i-kal-i), adv. If. Pas- 
sionately. 2. In a pathetic manner ; in such a 
manner as to excite the tender emotions or feel- 
ings; affectingly. 
patheticalness (pa-thet'i-kal-nes), n. The 
quality of being pathetic ; pathos. 
patheticus (pa-thet'i-kus), n.; pi. patltftici (-si). 
[NL.: Bee pathetic.] In anat., one of the fourth 
pair of cranial nerves; a trochlear or pathetic 
nerve. See trochlear. 
pathetism(path'e-tizm),n. [< ptitliet-ic + -.*>.] 
Animal magnetism, or the practice of magne- 
tizing; mesmerism. 
The term pathetium has also of late been proposed. 
tie Leuze, Anlin. Mag. (trans., 1848), p. 379. 
pathetist (path'e-tist), H. [< pathet-iitm + -int.] 
One who practises patriotism ; a mesmerizer. 
pathfinder (path'fin'der), n. One who discov- 
ers a path or way; an explorer; a pioneer. 
By the Frenchers, and the red-skins on the other side 
of the Big Lakes, I am called la Longne Carabine: bv the 
Mohicans, a just-minded and upright tribe, what is left of 
them, Hawk-eye ; while the troops and rangers along this 
side of the water call me Pathfinder, inasmuch as I have 
never been known to miss one end of the trail, when there 
was a Mlngo, or a friend who stood in need of me, at the 
other. Cooper, Pathfinder, i. 
pathic (path'ik), o. [< Or. Trofl/xoc, taken in sense 
of 'pertaining to disease,' < x66ot, disease: see 
pathos.] Of or pertaining to disease. 
pathic (path'ik), n. [< L. piithiriix. < Gr. Traflwdc 
(see def.), lit. remaining passive, < iraffeiv, 2d 
aor. of iraaxtiv, suffer, endure : see pathos.] A 
male that submits to the crime against nature ; 
a catamite. /{. Jonson. 
pathless (path'les), n. [< path + -fcvw.] Hav- 
ing no beaten way; untrodden: at*, a pathless 
forest; a pathless wilderness. 
pathology 
There Is a pleasure in the ,*ii)ileu woods, 
There Is a rapture on the: lonely sboie. 
Byrun. < hlidc Harold, IT. 178. 
There Is a Power whose can 
Teaches thy way along that palhleti coast, 
The desert and illimitable air. 
Bryant, To a Watnf.ml. 
pathoanatomlcal (imth-o-an-a-torn'i-kjil),!/. [< 
iir. T</">/< , <li-case, -f- aitirofij/, anatomy: 866 
linn/mull, iniiitiiiiiti-iil.] Pertaining to morbid 
anatomy. 
pathobiblogical (path-o-bi-o-loi'i-kul), . Same 
MfatlmliMjifiil. .Inter'. Jfat., XXIIi'113. 
patnobiologist (iiatli-o-lii-oro-jist), . Same as 
l>ntlioli>i/int. Amer. liut., XXII. 117. 
pathogene (path'o-jen), . [< Gr. nathc, disease, 
;, producing: see -gen.] A disease-pro- 
inicrococcus. See JUicrococcug. 
pathogenesis (path-o-jen'e-sig), n. [NL., < Gr. 
K<\(i<;, did-.: -ir, generation.] The mode 
of production or development of a disease. 
pathogenetic (path'o-je-net'ik), a. [< patho- 
</ ni'xui, after f/t-Hflif.] Same as pathogenic. 
pathogenic (path-o-jen'ik), a. [< pathogen-oug 
+ -ic.J Producing disease. 
pathogenous (i>a-thoj'e-nus), . [< Gr. irAffoc, 
disease, + -/fwfc, producing: see -gen.] Same 
&s jxithoyenic. 
The distinction of the bacteria into pathogenous and non- 
pathogenous. Sci. Amer., N. 8., LV. 3M. 
pathogeny (pa-thoj'e-ni), n. [Alsopatliogony; 
< Gr. jraflof, disease, any passive state, + -ytvtia, 
< -fevf/f, producing: see -geny.] Same as patho- 
genesis. 
pathognomonic (pa-thpg-no-mon'ik), a. [< Gr. 
mil>o-/v<jfun'iKi'ir, skilled in judging of diseases, < 
ir68of, suffering, disease, + yvitfiuv, a judge, one 
who knows or discerns, an examiner : see gno- 
mon. ] In werf., indicating that by which a dis- 
ease may be certainly known ; hence, belong- 
ing to or inseparable from a disease, being 
found in it and in no other ; characteristic : as. 
pathognomonic symptoms. 
He has the true pathognommiic sign of love, jealousy. 
ArlntUmot. 
Every one Is asleep, snoring, gritting his teeth, or talk- 
ing in his dreams. This is pathoynomonic ; it tells of Arc- 
tic winter and its companion scurry. 
Kaiu; Sec. Grlnn. Exp., L 431. 
pathognomy (pa-thog'no-mi), n. [< Gr. iraOof, 
suffering, feeling, + ynpn a means of knowing.a 
token or sign: aeegnome*.] The science of the 
signs by which human passions are indicated. 
pathogony (pa-thog'o-ni), u. [< Gr. jrdflbf, dis- 
ease, + -yovia, < y' j-n 1 , produce : see -gony.] 
Same as pathogeny. 
pathographical (path-6-graf'i-kal), a. [< pa- 
thoijrtipli-y + -ic-al.] Of or pertaining to pa- 
thography. 
pathography (pft-thog'ra-fi), n. [< Gr. 
disease, + -jpaifiia, < yp&qiioi, write.] 
tion of disease. 
pathol. An abbreviation of pathology. 
pathologic (path-o-loj'ik), a. [= F. patho- 
loyigue = Sp. patologico = Pg. pathologico = It. 
patologico, < Gr. iraBolMymo*;, that treats of suf- 
fering or disease, < mrooJojeiv, treat of suffer- 
ing or disease : see pathology.] Of or pertain- 
ing to pathology or disease. 
pathological (path-o-loj'i-kal), a. [< patho- 
logic + -al.] Same as pathologic. Pathological 
anatomy. See anatomy. 
pathologically (path-o-loj'i-kal-i), arfr. In a 
pathologic manner; as regards pathology. 
pathologist (pa-thol'o-jist), . [< patholog-y 
+ -int.] One who treats of pathology; one 
who is versed in the nature and diagnosis of 
ilisrases. 
pathology (pa-thol'o-ji), i. [= F. pathologic 
= Sp. jHitiiloijiti = V^.jKilliologia=:lt.palologia, 
< Gr. as if *xa0o/ l o)ia (< n-a6Y>/.o)fii>, treat of dis- 
ease), for which was used jroSo/.o)/7/ (sc. Ttxwi, 
art), < irA&os, disease, + -fayia, < /.tyetv, speak: 
see -Hint/;/.] 1. The science of diseases; the 
sum of scientific knowledge concerning disease, 
its origin, its various physiological and ana- 
tomical features, and its causative relations. 
General pathology concerns the nature of certain morbid 
conditions and processes that prevent themselves In vari- 
ous diseases, as pyrexla. edema, and Inflammation. Spe- 
cial pathology deals with morbid processes as united in 
individual diseases : as, the rperial pathology of typhoid 
fever or epilepsy. 
The great value of mental pathology to the psychologist 
Is that it presents to him the phenomena of mind (e. g. 
feeling, imagination) in unusual intensity. 
J. Sully, Outline* of Psychol., p. 683. 
2. The totality of the morbid conditions and 
processes in a disease. 
A descrip- 
