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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Homoeopathic \Ho`m[oe]*o*path"ic\, a., Homoeopathist \Ho`m[oe]*op"a*thist\, n., Homoeopathy \Ho`m[oe]*op"a*thy\, n. Same as Homeopathic, Homeopathist, Homeopathy. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Homeopathy \Ho*me*op"a*thy\, n. [Gr. ? likeness of condition or feeling; ? like (fr. ? same; cf. Same) + ? to suffer: cf. F. hom['e]opathie. See Pathos.] (Med.) The art of curing, founded on resemblances; the theory and its practice that disease is cured (tuto, cito, et jucunde) by remedies which produce on a healthy person effects similar to the symptoms of the complaint under which the patient suffers, the remedies being usually administered in minute doses. This system was founded by Dr. Samuel Hahnemann, and is opposed to allopathy, or heteropathy. [Written also hom[oe]opathy.] [1913 Webster]
The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):

HOMOEOPATHY, n. A school of medicine midway between Allopathy and Christian Science. To the last both the others are distinctly inferior, for Christian Science will cure imaginary diseases, and they can not.