Definition of "pathetick" []

• Archaic form of pathetic. (adjective)

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• "When he had got down upon the foot-pavement, he called out, ‘Fare you well;’ and without looking back, sprung away with a kind of pathetick briskness, if I may use that expression, which seemed to indicate a struggle to conceal uneasiness, and impressed me with a foreboding of our long, long separation."
• "When he had got down upon the foot-pavement, he called out, 'Fare you well;' and without looking back, sprung away with a kind of pathetick briskness, if I may use that expression, which seemed to indicate a struggle to conceal uneasiness, and impressed me with a foreboding of our long, long separation."
• "But Thompson spoke from immediate experience and made his point well—despite a readiness to indulge in what he called a “pathetick apostrophe: ‘O! my country, never give up your annual elections, young men never give up your jewell!’”"