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Pathognomonic

Specially or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom.

Pathognomy

Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

pathologist

One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.

pathology

The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.

Pathopoeia

A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion.

Pathos

That quality or property of anything which touches the feelings or excites emotions and passions, esp., that which awakens tender emotions, such as pity, sorrow, and the like; contagious warmth of feeling, action, or expression; pathetic quality; as, the pathos of a picture, of a poem, or of a cry.

Pathway

A footpath; a beaten track; any path or course. Also used figuratively.

Patible

Sufferable; tolerable; endurable.

Patibulary

Of or pertaining to the gallows, or to execution.

Patience

The state or quality of being patient; the power of suffering with fortitude; uncomplaining endurance of evils or wrongs, as toil, pain, poverty, insult, oppression, calamity, etc.

patina

A dish or plate of metal or earthenware; a patella.

patinate

to coat with a patina; to patinize.

Patio

A paved yard or floor where ores are cleaned and sorted, or where ore, salt, mercury, etc., are trampled by horses, to effect intermixture and amalgamation.

Patness

Fitness or appropriateness; striking suitableness; convenience.

Patois

A dialect peculiar to the illiterate classes; a provincial form of speech.

Patolli

An American Indian game analogous to dice, probably originally a method of divination.

Patonce

Having the arms growing broader and floriated toward the end; -- said of a cross. See Illust. 9 of Cross.

Patrial

Derived from the name of a country, and designating an inhabitant of the country; gentile; -- said of a noun. A patrial noun. Thus Romanus, a Roman, and Troas, a woman of Troy, are patrial nouns, or patrials.

Patriarch

The father and ruler of a family; one who governs his family or descendants by paternal right; -- usually applied to heads of families in ancient history, especially in Biblical and Jewish history to those who lived before the time of Moses.

Patriarchal

Of or pertaining to a patriarch or to patriarchs; possessed by, or subject to, patriarchs; as, patriarchal authority or jurisdiction; a patriarchal see; a patriarchal church.

Patriarchate

The office, dignity, or jurisdiction of a patriarch.

Patriarchdom

The office or jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchate.

Patriarchism

Government by a patriarch, or the head of a family.

Patriarchy

The jurisdiction of a patriarch; patriarchship.

Patrician

Originally, a member of any of the families constituting the populus Romanus, or body of Roman citizens, before the development of the plebeian order; later, one who, by right of birth or by special privilege conferred, belonged to the nobility.

Patriciate

The patrician class; the aristocracy; also, the office of patriarch.

Patricidal

Of or pertaining to patricide; parricidal.

patrikin

one related on the father's side.

patrilineage

The line of descent traced through the paternal side of the family.

patrilineal

tracing descent through the male line; as, a patrilineal society.

Patrimonial

Of or pertaining to a patrimony; inherited from ancestors; as, a patrimonial estate.

Patrimony

A right or estate inherited from one's father; or, in a larger sense, from any ancestor.

Patriot

Becoming to a patriot; patriotic.

Patriotic

Inspired by patriotism; actuated by love of one's country; zealously and unselfishly devoted to the service of one's country; as, a patriotic statesman, vigilance.

Patriotism

Love of country; devotion to the welfare of one's country; the virtues and actions of a patriot; the passion which inspires one to serve one's country.

Patripassian

One of a body of believers in the early church who denied the independent pre/xistent personality of Christ, and who, accordingly, held that the Father suffered in the Son; a monarchian.

Patristics

That departnent of historical theology which treats of the lives and doctrines of the Fathers of the church.

Patrol

A going of the rounds along the chain of sentinels and between the posts, by a guard, usually consisting of three or four men, to insure greater security from attacks on the outposts. A movement, by a small body of troops beyond the line of outposts, to explore the country and gain intelligence of the enemy's whereabouts. The guard or men who go the rounds for observation; a detachment whose duty it is to patrol.

patrol wagon

An enclosed truck used by police to transport prisoners.

patroller

An individual or a member of a group that patrols an area.

patrolling

The activity of going around or through an area at regular intervals for security purposes.

Patrolman

One who patrols; a watchman; especially, a policeman who patrols a particular precinct of a town or city.

Patron

Doing the duty of a patron; giving aid or protection; tutelary.

Patronage

To act as a patron of; to maintain; to defend.

Patronate

The right or duty of a patron; patronage.

Patronize

To act as patron toward; to support; to countenance; to favor; to aid.

Patronizing

Showing condescending favor; assuming the manner of airs of a superior toward another.

Patronomatology

That branch of knowledge which deals with personal names and their origin; the study of patronymics.

Patronymic

A modification of the father's name borne by the son; a name derived from that of a parent or ancestor; as, Pelides, the son of Peleus; Johnson, the son of John; Macdonald, the son of Donald; Paulowitz, the son of Paul; also, the surname of a family; the family name.

Patroon

One of the proprietors of certain tracts of land with manorial privileges and right of entail, under the old Dutch governments of New York and New Jersey.

Pattee Patte

Narrow at the inner, and very broad at the other, end, or having its arms of that shape; -- said of a cross. See Illust. (8) of Cross.

Patten

A clog or sole of wood, usually supported by an iron ring, worn to raise the feet from the wet or the mud.

Patter

A quick succession of slight sounds; as, the patter of rain; the patter of little feet.

Patterer

One who patters, or talks glibly; specifically, a street peddler.

Pattern

To make or design (anything) by, from, or after, something that serves as a pattern; to copy; to model; to imitate.

Pattern matching

A technique in automated data analysis, usually performed on a computer, by which a group of characteristic properties of an unknown object is compared with the comparable groups of characteristics of a set of known objects, to discover the idenity or proper classification of the unknown object.

patterned

Having describable patterns, especially patterns of colors.

patternmaker

Someone who makes patterns (as for sewing or carpentery or metalworking).

Patulous

Open; expanded; slightly spreading; having the parts loose or dispersed; as, a patulous calyx; a patulous cluster of flowers.

Paucispiral

Having few spirals, or whorls; as, a paucispiral operculum or shell.

Paucity

Fewness; smallness of number; scarcity; rarity.

Pauhaugen

The menhaden; -- called also poghaden.

Paul

An Italian silver coin. See Paolo.

Pauldron

A piece of armor covering the shoulder at the junction of the body piece and arm piece.

Paulianist Paulian

A follower of Paul of Samosata, a bishop of Antioch in the third century, who was deposed for denying the divinity of Christ.

Paulician

One of a sect of Christian dualists originating in Armenia in the seventh century. They rejected the Old Testament and the part of the New.

Pauline

Of or pertaining to the apostle Paul, or his writings; resembling, or conforming to, the writings of Paul; as, the Pauline epistles; Pauline doctrine.

Paulist

A member of The Institute of the Missionary Priests of St. Paul the Apostle, founded in 1858 by the Rev. I. T. Hecker of New York. The majority of the members were formerly Protestants.

Paulownia

A genus of trees of the order Scrophulariace/, consisting of one species, Paulownia imperialis.

Paum

To palm off by fraud; to cheat at cards.

Paunch

To pierce or rip the belly of; to eviscerate; to disembowel.

Paune

A kind of bread. See Pone.

Pauper

A very poor person; one without any means of support, especially one dependent on private or public charity. Also used adjectively; as, pauper immigrants, pauper labor.

Pauperism

The state of being a pauper; the state of indigent persons requiring support from the community.

Pauperize

To reduce to pauperism; as, to pauperize the peasantry.

Pauropoda

An order of small myriapods having only nine pairs of legs and destitute of trache/.

Pause

To cause to stop or rest; -- used reflexively.

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