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  From  Webster's  Revised  Unabridged  Dictionary  (1913)  [web1913]: 
 
  Idiopathy  \Id`i*op"a*thy\,  n.;  pl  {Idiopathies}.  [Gr.  ?;  ? 
  proper,  peculiar  +  ?,  ?,  to  suffer:  cf  F.  idiopathie.] 
  1.  A  peculiar,  or  individual,  characteristic  or  affection. 
 
  All  men  are  so  full  of  their  own  fancies  and 
  idiopathies,  that  they  scarce  have  the  civility  to 
  interchange  any  words  with  a  stranger.  --Dr.  H. 
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  2.  (Med.)  A  morbid  state  or  condition  not  preceded  or 
  occasioned  by  any  other  disease;  a  primary  disease. 




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