Defn: To walk or go. [R.] Shak.
PATHEMATIC
Path`e*mat"ic, a. Etym: [Gr.
Defn: Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering. [R.]
Chalmers.
PATHETIC
Pa*thet"ic, a. Etym: [L. patheticus, Gr. pathétique. See Pathos.]
1. Expressing or showing anger; passionate. [Obs.]
2. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. "Pathetic action." Macaulay. 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.
PATHETICAL
Pa*thet"ic*al, a.
Defn: Pathetic. [R.] — Pa*thet"ic*al*ly, adv.
— Pa*thet"ic*al*ness, n.
PATHETISM
Path"e*tism, n. Etym: [Cf. F. pathétisme.]
Defn: See Mesmerism. L. Sunderland.