What's the difference between catamite and pathic?

Catamite


Definition:

  • (n.) A boy kept for unnatural purposes.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) Piers Gaveston members are understood to be given obscure titles such as “Poker”, “Despenser” and “Catamite”, and they all follow the Sicilian code of Omertà – or maintaining silence about the club.

Pathic


Definition:

  • (n.) A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite.
  • (a.) Passive; suffering.

Example Sentences:

  • (1) In contrast to modern Cartisianism subjectivity is defined as pathical existence and this again considered as a polarity of activity and suffering.
  • (2) Most of the latter are oncocytes and characterized by an extensive amount of pathic mitochondria.
  • (3) The necessary development of an organ-pathology supported by the clinical specialisation again demands a conform functional and structural style of thinking in pathic processes.
  • (4) It has been observed that (a) traumatic and actual types of addiction have a much more favourable prognosis; (b) individual psychotherapy and support in a medical setting is effective for the traumatic type of addiction; (c) treatment in a family setting appears to be suitable for actual and transitional types of addiction; and (d) the therapeutic community may prove to be effective in the treatment of persons affected by socio-pathic type of addiction.
  • (5) Thus obnubilation, depersonalization, illusions, pathic affects etc.
  • (6) The author investigated in an open clinical study the neuroleptic and antidepressive action of Eglonyl in 17 patients who met the criteria (diagnosis of psychoaffective psychosis, symptoms in the sphere of schizophrenia, depressive pathic moods).

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