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.
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Webster's Dictionary 1828
American Dictionary of the English Language, Noah Webster, 1828.