Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for PA-THET'IC
PA-THET'IC, or PA-THET'IC-ALPA-THET'IC-AL-LY
PA-THET'IC, n.
Style or manner adapted to awaken the passions, especially tender emotions. A musician at Venice is said to have so excelled in the pathetic, as to be able to play any of his auditors into distraction. – Encyc.
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