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  • English Word Sympathize Definition To ansew to; to correspond to.
  • English Word Sympathized Definition of Sympathize
  • English Word Sympathizer Definition One who sympathizes.
  • English Word Sympathizing Definition of Sympathize
  • English Word Sympathy Definition Feeling corresponding to that which another feels; the quality of being affected by the affection of another, with feelings correspondent in kind, if not in degree; fellow-feeling.
  • English Word Sympathy Definition An agreement of affections or inclinations, or a conformity of natural temperament, which causes persons to be pleased, or in accord, with one another; as, there is perfect sympathy between them.
  • English Word Sympathy Definition Kindness of feeling toward one who suffers; pity; commiseration; compassion.
  • English Word Sympathy Definition The reciprocal influence exercised by the various organs or parts of the body on one another, as manifested in the transmission of a disease by unknown means from one organ to another quite remote, or in the influence exerted by a diseased condition of one part on another part or organ, as in the vomiting produced by a tumor of the brain.
  • English Word Sympathy Definition That relation which exists between different persons by which one of them produces in the others a state or condition like that of himself. This is shown in the tendency to yawn which a person often feels on seeing another yawn, or the strong inclination to become hysteric experienced by many women on seeing another person suffering with hysteria.
  • English Word Sympathy Definition A tendency of inanimate things to unite, or to act on each other; as, the sympathy between the loadstone and iron.
  • English Word Sympathy Definition Similarity of function, use office, or the like.
  • English Word Sympetalous Definition Having the petals united; gamopetalous.
  • English Word Symphonic Definition Symphonious.
  • English Word Symphonic Definition Relating to, or in the manner of, symphony; as, the symphonic form or style of composition.
  • English Word Symphonies Definition of Symphony
  • English Word Symphonious Definition Agreeing in sound; accordant; harmonious.
  • English Word Symphonious Definition Symphonic.
  • English Word Symphonist Definition A composer of symphonies.
  • English Word Symphonize Definition To agree; to be in harmony.
  • English Word Symphonized Definition of Symphonize
  • English Word Symphonizing Definition of Symphonize
  • English Word Symphony Definition A consonance or harmony of sounds, agreeable to the ear, whether the sounds are vocal or instrumental, or both.
  • English Word Symphony Definition A stringed instrument formerly in use, somewhat resembling the virginal.
  • English Word Symphony Definition An elaborate instrumental composition for a full orchestra, consisting usually, like the sonata, of three or four contrasted yet inwardly related movements, as the allegro, the adagio, the minuet and trio, or scherzo, and the finale in quick time. The term has recently been applied to large orchestral works in freer form, with arguments or programmes to explain their meaning, such as the "symphonic poems" of Liszt. The term was formerly applied to any composition for an orchestra, as overtures, etc., and still earlier, to certain compositions partly vocal, partly instrumental.
  • English Word Symphony Definition An instrumental passage at the beginning or end, or in the course of, a vocal composition; a prelude, interlude, or postude; a ritornello.
  • English Word Symphyla Definition An order of small apterous insects having an elongated body, with three pairs of thoracic and about nine pairs of abdominal legs. They are, in many respects, intermediate between myriapods and true insects.
  • English Word Symphyseal Definition Of or pertaining to to symphysis.
  • English Word Symphyseotomy Definition The operation of dividing the symphysis pubis for the purpose of facilitating labor; -- formerly called the Sigualtian section.
  • English Word Symphyses Definition of Symphysis
  • English Word Symphysis Definition An articulation formed by intervening cartilage; as, the pubic symphysis.