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Pathetic

PATHET'IC PATHET'ICAL, a. [Gr. passion; to suffer.] Affecting or moving the passions, particularly pity, sorrow, grief or other tender emotion; as a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation. No theor...

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PATHET'IC

PATHET'ICAL, a. [Gr. passion; to suffer.] Affecting or moving the passions, particularly pity, sorrow, grief or other tender emotion; as a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation.

No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic.

PATHET'IC, n. Style or manner adapted to awaken the passions, especially tender emotions.

A musician at Venice is said to have so excelled in the pathetic, as to be able to play any of his auditors into distraction.

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