Pāth'e-tism, n.

n. [Fr. pathétisme. See supra.] The agency by which one person, by manipulation, is said to produce, in the system of another, emotion, feeling, passion, or other physical or mental effect; susceptibility of emotion or feeling, of any kind, from physical contact, or sympathy with the will of another;— the same as MESMERISM. Sunderland.