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Pathic

Pathic \Path"ic\, a. [Gr. ?.] Passive; suffering.

Pathic

Pathic \Path"ic\, n. [L. pathicus, Gr. ?, passive, fr. ?, ?, to suffer] A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite. [R.]
--B. Jonson.

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pathic

a. passive; suffering n. The passive male partner in anal intercourse.

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Usage examples of "pathic".

This book spill off the page in all directions, kaleidescope of vistas, medley of tunes and street noises, farts and riot yipes and the slamming steel shutters of commerce, screams of pain and pathos and screams plain pathic, copulating cats and outraged squawk of the displaced bull head, prophetic mutterings of brujo in nutmeg trances, snapping necks and screaming mandrakes, sigh of orgasm, heroin silent as dawn in the thirsty cells, Radio Cairo screaming like a berserk tobacco auction, and flutes of Ramadan fanning the sick junky like a gentle lush worker in the grey subway dawn feeling with delicate fingers for the green folding crackle.

And enough of these gooey saints with a look of pathic dismay as if they getting fucked up the ass and try not to pay it any mind.

Huge pathic frog rises slowly from the water on a mud platform playing the clavichord.

He pretended that Cassius was an effeminate old pathic, and was always making dirty jokes about him to the other Guards officers, who were obliged to laugh heartily at them.

He was the favourite pathic of Cardinal Borghese, and supped every evening with his eminence.

There was a secret path to it up the cliff, by which a trusted freedman of his, a man of great physical strength, used to conduct the disreputable characters-prostitutes, pathics, fortune-tellers and magicians-with whom he customarily passed his evenings.

Or nasty pathics smelling of myrrh: you know how I loathe frogs and pathics.

He was the favourite pathic of Cardinal Borghese, and supped every evening with his eminence.

The pathic escaped from the bed and crept into his mother's, while the little wanton told me there was really no harm, as they only loved each other as brother and sister, and that if I wanted her to sleep by herself all I had to do was to get her a new bed.

He was famous for having been the lover of one of the most exalted Venetian ladies, and at the same time her husband's pathic.