sympathizer (simpathizer)

[ sympathy (sim'pa-thi), n.; pl. sympathies (-thiz). [Formerly also sympathie, simpathie; = F.sym pathie Sp. simp atía = Pg. sympathia = It. simpatia, This is by a naturall simpathie betweene the eare and the eye, and betweene tunes & colours. Putten ham , Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 70. In order to awaken something of sympathy for the unfortunate natives. Burke , Fox's East India Bill. The word sympathy may also be used on this occasion, though the sense seems to be rather more extensive. In a good sense, it is styled benevolence; and, in certain cases, philanthropy; and, in a figurative way, brotherly love; in others, humanity; in others, charity; in others, pity and compa ion; in others, mercy; in others, grat i in others, tenderne ; in others, patriotism; in ers, public spirit. Bentham, Introd. to Morals and Legislation, x. 25. Although we commonly have in view feeling for pain rather than for pleasure when we talk of sympathy , this last really includes both. J. Sully , Outlines of Psychol., p. 510. It is true that sympathy does not nece arily follow from the mere fact of gregariousne . Cattle do not help a wounded comrade; contrary, they are likely to dispatch him. W. James , Prin. of Psychology, II. 210. 2. An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural disposition which makes two persons agreeable each to the other; mutual or reciprocal inclination or affection; sympathetic interest: in this sense commonly followed by with: as, to have sympathy with a person in his hopes, aspirations, or aims. Yea, I think there was a kind of sympathy betwixt that valley and him. Bunyan , Pilgrim's Progre , ii. Priscilla's silent sympathy with his purposes, so unalloyed with criticism, and therefore more grateful than any intellectual approbation, which always involves a po ible reserve of latent censure. Hawthorne, Blithe dale Romance, ix. To cultivate sympathy , you must be among living creatures, and thinking about them. Ruskin, 3. In physiol. and pathol.: (a) That state of an organ or a ti ue which has a certain relation to the condition of another organ or ti ue in health and disease; a related state of the vital manifestations or actions in different organs or ti ues, such that when one part is excited or affected others are also affected; that relation of the organs and parts of a living body to each other whereby a disordered condition of one part induces more or le disorder in another parts, for example, the pirn the brow caused by taking a draught of cold water into the stomach, the pain in the right shoulder arising from disease of the liver, or the irri 6128 other yawn.-4. Physical action at a distance (so used by old writers against astrology, who argue that the influence of the stars is not physical sympathy and not moral sympathy, and therefore does not exist at all): as, the sympathy between the lodestone and iron. What we call sympathies and antipathies depending indeed on the peculiar textures and other modifications of the bodies between whom these friendships and hostilities are said to be exercised, I see not why it should be impo ible that there be a cognation betwixt a body of a congruous or convenient texture and the effluviums of any other body. Boyle, Hidden Qualities of Air. 5. In acoustics, the fact, condition, or result of such a relation between two vibratile bodies that when one is thrown into vibration the other tends to vibrate in a similar or related way, in consequence of the vibrations communicated to it through the air or some other medium. - Powder of sympathy. See powder. = Syn. 1. Commiseration, Compa ion, etc. (see pity ); tenderne . 2. Affinity, harmony. sympathyt (sim'pa-thi), v. i. [ Pleasures that are not man's as man is man, But as his nature sympathies with beasts. Randolph, Muse's Looking Gla , ii. 3. sympelmous (sim-pel'mus), a . [ πέλμα , the sole of the foot.] In or nith .; having the tendons of the deep flexors of the toes blended in one before separat ing to proceed one to each of the four digits: contrasted with noто pelmous. Also synpel mous. Stand. Nat. Hist., IV. 369. IMG:content-2679.png:[blocks in formation] IMG:content-2680.png:[blocks in formation] Ang., p. 340. symphant,v.i. [ME. * symphanen, synfan; sym [NL. (Rafi Cath. Ang., p. 340. Symphemia (sim-fe'mi-ä), n. nesque, 1815, as agreeing with, Synphenia), sounds or phenomena. Stormonth. п. [L.: see sym symphonial (sim-fö'ni-ä), phony.] 1. In anc. Gr. music, same as concord or consonance.-2. In medieval music, a name applied to several distinct instruments, such as the bagpipe, hurdy-gurdy, or virginal.-3. Same as symphony. Symphonia (sim-fo'ni-a), n. [NL. (Linnæus hus, and fruit; filius, 1781), named from the regular regular flowers and fruitiaca. symphoniaca), appar. an amaranth, φωνία, symphony: see symphony.] A genus of polypetalous plants, of the order Guttiferæ and tribe Moronobeæ. It is characterized by globose flowers with short sepals, erect convolute petals, and a columnar stamen-tube of five elongated lobes bearing three or four anthers below the apex. The 5 species are all confined to Madagascar. They are trees or shrubs with thin but coriaceous leaves having crowded parallel veins proceeding from the midrib. The large terminal flowers are commonly scarlet and grouped in somewhat umbellate panicles, followed by globose or ovoid berries. Symphoricarpos The hog-gum tree is referred by some to this genus as S. globulifera. See Moronobea, hog - gum, and karamani -resin. symphonic (sim-fon'ik), a. [= F.symphonique; as symphon -y + -ic. Cf. L. symphoniacus, Mr. Sweet is now engaged on a work which gives him special facilities of comparing whole cla es of symphonic words with each other and their earlier forms. J. A. H. Murray, Addre to the Philol. Soc., May 21, 1880 [(in Trans. Philol. Soc., 1880, р. 149). 3. In music, pertaining or relating to or characteristic of a symphony: as, a composition in symphonic form. Schumann's First Symphony... as a whole no superior in all symphonic literature. has The Nation, Nov. 29, 1883. Symphonic poem, in music , a work of symphonic dimen sions, but free in form, like an overture, based on a spec i fled poetic subject: an elaborate kind of program-music especially favored by Liszt.