Definition of "pathetical" [pa•thet•ic•al]

• Pathetic (adjective)

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• "IV. i.195 (314,1) [I will think you the most pathetical break-promise] [W: atheistical] I do not see but that _pathetical_ may stand, which seems to afford as much sense and as much humour as _atheistical_."
• "[5520] Lucian in that pathetical love passage, or pleasant description of Jupiter's stealing of"
• "[3333] Julius Scaliger was so much affected with poetry, that he brake out into a pathetical protestation, he had rather be the author of twelve verses in"