sympathist

English

Etymology

sympathy +‎ -ist

Noun

sympathist (plural sympathists)

  1. One who sympathizes; a sympathizer.
    • c. 1810-1820, Samuel Taylor Coleridge, Notes on Some Other Plays of Shakespeare
      the sensation , -of human auditors , —of flesh and blood sympathists - acts as a support and a stimulation a tergo
  2. (archaic) One who is susceptible to hypnotic suggestion.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “sympathist”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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