Category: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.