Noah Webster's 1828 American Dictionary of the English Language is regarded by many as the finest English
dictionary ever published. The dictionary is available in many forms. I made the content available here for my own purposes,
out of personal admiration for this particular dictionary.
SYMPTOMAT'IC SYMPTOMAT'ICAL, a. Pertaining to symptoms; happening in concurrence with something; indicating the existence of something else. 1. In medicine, a symptomatic disease is one which proceeds from some prior disorder in some part of the body. Thus a symptomatic fever may proceed from local pain or local inflammation. It is opposed to idiopathic. 2. According to symptoms; as a symptomatical classification of diseases.