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Webster 1913 Edition
Pathetic
Pa-thet′ic
(pȧ-thĕt′ĭk)
, Adj.
1.
Expressing or showing anger; passionate.
[Obs.]
2.
Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos;
“Pathetic action.” as, a
. pathetic
song or storyMacaulay.
No theory of the passions can teach a man to be
pathetic
. E. Porter.
Pathetic muscle
(Anat.)
, the superior oblique muscle of the eye.
– Pathetic nerve
(Anat.)
, the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye.
– The pathetic
, a style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.