Homeopathy

ho-me-op'a-thY, n. (Med.) Theory that disease cured by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the patient's complaint, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. [Gr. homoiopatheia, likene in feeling or condition, sympathy, homoios (fr. homos, same same), like, similar, and pathein, to suffer.] — Ho'meopatn'ic, a. Of, or pert, to, etc. — Ho'meop'athist, Ho'meopath, n. A believer_in, or practitioner of, etc. — Homoiou's ian, -moi-oo'zY-an, n. (Eccl. Hist.) One who held that the Son was of like, but not the same, e ence with the Father, — opp. to homoousian, q. under Homocentric. [Gr. homoios and ousia, substance, e ence, eina i, to be, p. pr. on, ous a, 6n.]