sympony.html - n.
(pl. sympodia) Bot. the apparent main axis or stem of a vine etc., made up of successive secondary axes.

sympodial adj. [mod.L (as SYN-, Gk pous podos foot)]

sympony.html - n.
(pl. symposia)
1 a a conference or meeting to discuss a particular subject. b a collection of essays or papers for this purpose.
2 a philosophical or other friendly discussion.
3 a drinking-party, esp. of the ancient Greeks with conversation etc. after a banquet. [L f. Gk sumposion in sense 3 (as SYN-, - potes drinker)]

sympony.html - n.
(pl. -ies) the surgical removal of a sympathetic ganglion etc.

sympony.html - adj. & n.
--adj.

1 of, showing, or expressing sympathy.
2 due to sympathy.
3 likeable or capable of evoking sympathy.
4 (of a person) friendly and cooperative.
5 (foll. by to) inclined to favour (a proposal etc.) (was most sympathetic to the idea).
6 (of a landscape etc.) that touches the feelings by association etc.
7 (of a pain etc.) caused by a pain or injury to someone else or in another part of the body.
8 (of a sound, resonance, or string) sounding by a vibration communicated from another vibrating object.
9 a designating the part of the nervous system consisting of nerves leaving the thoracic and lumbar regions of the spinal cord and connecting with the nerve cells in or near the viscera (see PARASYMPATHETIC ). b (of a nerve or ganglion) belonging to this system.

--n.

1 a sympathetic nerve.
2 the sympathetic system.

sympathetic magic a type of magic that seeks to achieve an effect by performing an associated action or using an associated thing.

sympathetically adv. [SYMPATHY, after pathetic]

sympony.html - v.intr. (also -ise) (often foll. by with)
1 feel or express sympathy; share a feeling or opinion.
2 agree with a sentiment or opinion.

sympathizer n. [F sympathiser (as SYMPATHY)]

sympony.html - n.
(pl. -ies)
1 a the state of being simultaneously affected with the same feeling as another. b the capacity for this.
2 (often foll. by with) a the act of sharing or tendency to share (with a person etc.) in an emotion or sensation or condition of another person or thing. b (in sing. or pl.) compassion or commiseration; condolences.
3 (often foll. by for) a favourable attitude; approval.
4 (in sing. or pl.; often foll. by with) agreement (with a person etc.) in opinion or desire.
5 (attrib.) in support of another cause (sympathy strike).

in sympathy (often foll. by with)
1 having or showing or resulting from sympathy (with another).
2 by way of sympathetic action (working to rule in sympathy). [L sympathia f. Gk sumpatheia (as SYN-, pathes f. pathos feeling)]