a. [ad. mod.Fr. allopathique: see ALLOPATHY and -IC. Due to form-assoc. with words like botanie, botanique, etc., and not derivable from Gr. παθικός passive.] Of or pertaining to allopathy.
1830. Edin. Rev., L. 513. The allopathic … method … hopes to cure disease by exciting some dissimilar affection.
1844. T. Graham, Dom. Med., 330. Some of the allopathic school, who order poisons every day, and almost wholesale.
1870. Daily News, 29 Sept., 2/1. Various medical journals of the allopathic profession.
