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Pathetic, -i(c)k, a. [e.m.E. pathetique (1598), F. pathétique (16th c. in Hatz.-Darm.), late L. pathēticus, f. Gk. παθητικός sensitive.] Expressing or arousing strong emotion; passionate; moving, stirring. — 1590-1 R. Bruce Serm. 255.
A pathetic and cutted kind of speech whereby he testifieth that his tongue would not serve him to express the matter 1641 Baillie I. 347.
In the end … he made such ane pathetick oration … as ever comedian did upon a stage c1646 Craufurd Edinb. Univ. fol. 56.
The Ladie Caledonia … delivered an congratulatory speech to his ma[jesty] full of pathetik expressions
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