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   Pathetic , a. [L. patheticus, Gr. παθητικός, fr. παθεῖν, πάσχειν, to suffer: cf. F. pathétique. See Pathos.]
    Expressing or showing anger; passionate. [Obs.]
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   Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. “Pathetic action.”
   Macaulay.
   
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   No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic.
   E. Porter.
   
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   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.
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