patheticn.

Brit.

/pəˈθɛtɪk/, U.S.

/pəˈθɛdɪk/

Forms: see pathetic adj. and adv.

Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pathetic adj.

Etymology: < pathetic adj. With sense 2 compare Hellenistic Greek παθητικόν the pathetic style (cited as a Greek word in Cicero), French pathétique that which causes emotion, pathetic style (1674). Compare earlier pathos n.

†a. Pathetic language or feeling; pathos. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > instance or act of lamenting

moan?c1225

mean?c1250

bimena1325

lamentation1382

queryc1400

pinec1440

tragedy1536

lamentc1592

complaint?1606

conclamation1627

quiritation1634

throb1635

pathetic1667

dismals1774

jeremiad1780

complain1820

tangi1836

Jobism1855

wail1867

rune1922

vigil1956

1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 84 Holy Job's pathetique is upon a like dismal accident.

1693 J. Dennis Impartial Critick iv. 36 An Audience which the Episode disturb'd by its Sublimity, and by its Pathetick.

1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 196 Your true sublime, and lorn pathetic, she will abhor, like an emetic.

a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 218 What a contrast to the drunken pathetic of his weeping client!

b. In plural. Pathetic expressions, sentiments, or outbursts. Cf. heroic n. 1c.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [noun] > expression or sentiment

pathos1579

pathetics1702

1702 G. Farquhar Love & Business 118 Here is he furnish'd with Unity of Action.., Narrations, Deliberations, Didacticks, Patheticks, Monologues, [etc.].

1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxiii. 228 Miss Pert, none of your pathetics, except in the right place.

1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ii. 12 [He] went at once into such deep pathetics, that he knocked the first speaker clean out of the course.

1931 F. S. Oliver Endless Adventure i. xx. 100 A man who abounds in pathetics, and heroics, and other high-flown sentiments.

1998 Observer (Nexis) 4 Jan. 20 A comedy of pathetics, heroics and black intrigue.

2. With the. That which is pathetic; the pathetic style or genre.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [noun] > that which causes emotion

pathetic1696

1696 J. Dennis Remarks Prince Arthur vi. 29 There is more of the Pathetick in them, than there is in all the rest of the Poem.

1705 tr. Aristotle Art of Poetry xix. 312 There are..four sorts of Tragedy... The second is the Pathetick, as Ajax, and the Ixions.

1766 J. Adams Diary 29 July (1961) I. 317 In what is this Man conspicuous? in Reasoning? in Imagination? in Painting? in the Pathetic? or what?

1858 C. Dickens Let. 25 Aug. (1995) VIII. 637 I very much doubt the Irish capacity of receiving the pathetic.

1939 S. McIlwaine Southern Poor-White 112 As for tragedy, he bogged down in the pathetic.

1993 C. Verba Music & French Enlightenm. 118 The pathetic is expressed through harmony and through inflections.

†3. Anatomy. The trochlear (fourth cranial) nerve. Cf. pathetic adj. 5. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > pairs of cranial nerves > specific cranial nerves

optic sinew?c1425

recurrent nerve1578

optic1615

optic nerve1615

recurrent1615

par vagum1666

fourth nerve1681

accessory nerve1682

chorda tympani1807

abducens1809

hypoglossus1811

pneumogastric1826

pneumogastric nerve1827

hypoglossal nerve1828

facial1834

fifth nerve1836–9

vagus1840

vagal nerve1854

vagus nerve1856

Jacobson's nerve1860

oculomotor1868

trigeminus1875

hypoglossal1876

oculimotor1890

pathetic1890

sixth1899

trigeminal1899

1890 Cent. Dict. Pathetic n., a trochlear or pathetic nerve; a patheticus.

†4. In plural (with singular agreement). The study of the human emotions or passions. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > mental capacity > psychology > study of emotions > [noun]

pathology1681

pathognomy1789

pathematologya1832

pathetics1896

1896 Idler Mar. 263/2 Pathological Pathetics..had..almost monopolised the conversation.

1899 Westm. Gaz. 12 Jan. 1/3 Pathetics is, or should be, the name of a study of the effects on a personality caused by an artistic appeal to the emotions.

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patheticadj.adv.

Brit.

/pəˈθɛtɪk/, U.S.

/pəˈθɛdɪk/

Forms: 1500s–1600s pathetique, 1500s–1700s pathetick, 1600s pathetike, 1600s– pathetic; also Scottish pre-1700 pathetik.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin patheticus.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin patheticus producing an effect upon the emotions (4th cent. as a technical term in rhetoric; in classical Latin authors as a Greek word) < ancient Greek παθητικός capable of feeling or emotion, impassioned, emotional < παθητός liable to suffer, subject to external influence < (παθ- , stem of πάσχειν to suffer and πάθος suffering (see pathos n.) + -τός , suffix forming adjectives) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French pathétique (1584), Italian patetico (1575), Spanish patético (1596 with reference to tragedy (compare sense A. 1b)), Catalan patètic (a1400). Compare earlier pathetical adj.In sense A. 5 after post-classical Latin nervus patheticus (T. Willis Cerebri Anatome (1664) sig. A6). Compare French nerf pathétique (1695), muscle pathétique (1842).

A. adj.

a. Arousing sadness, compassion, or sympathy, esp. through vulnerability or sadness; pitiable.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [adjective]

armlyeOE

unseelyOE

rulyOE

ruefulc1225

ruthfulc1225

sorryc1225

piteousc1300

poorc1300

ruthlyc1300

pietousa1393

pitifulc1450

lamentablec1460

miserable?a1475

pitiablec1475

execrable1490

plainful1555

tristsum1567

passionatea1586

touchinga1586

pathetic1591

melting1593

remorseful?1615

compassionate1630

compassionable1635

ruesome1833

po'1866

little-boy-lost1957

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [adjective] > affecting tender emotions

pathetic1591

1591 R. Bruce Serm. Edinb. (Isa. xxxviii. 16) sig. M4 A pathetick and cutted kind of speeche, where by he testifieth that his toong walde not serue him to expresse the mater.

1606 J. Day Ile of Guls ii Your onely way to mooue a sute by: Humbly complayning to your good worship, O tis most pathetick.

1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus iii Sing her some pathetick madrigall full of cromatick flats.

1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 14 The Boys and Girls whom Charity maintains, Implore your help in these pathetic strains.

1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne vi. 174 There is one passage..which the circumstances of Sterne's death render pathetic.

1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. i. ii. 15 Our parting with our uncle was quite pathetic.

1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams ii. x. 212 Indian mothers in pathetic custom drop their milk on the lips of the dead child.

1917 S. Leacock Frenzied Fiction vii. 124 A pathetic little mite in a rabbit-skin, with blue eyes and a slobbered face.

1990 J. Meyers D.H. Lawrence vii. 94 He appealed to Frieda's mother, emphasizing his shredded nerves and pathetic suffering.

†b. gen. Producing an effect upon the emotions; moving, stirring, affecting. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [adjective]

ruefulc1225

pathetical1563

touchinga1586

imprintingc1592

moving1594

pathetic1598

neara1616

affectivea1639

affectuous1664

tenderingc1694

affecting1703

tender1705

emotive1847

1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H4 Some new pathetique Tragedie.

1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iii. sig. E3^v Did wee not shake the Prince with enargie?.. And most pathetique piercing Oratorie?

1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. ix. sig. Dd7^v The more Instructive and Pathetick passages [of a sermon].

1701 J. Dennis in H. A. Needham Taste & Crit. 18th Cent. (1952) 61 That the speech by which poetry makes its imitation must be pathetic is evident, for passion is still more necessary to it than harmony.

1705 tr. A. Dacier in tr. Aristotle Art of Poetry xiii. 230 Euripides..is the most Affecting and Pathetick of all the Poets.

1762 R. Symmer in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 450 A very proper speech, delivered in a noble and pathetic manner.

1789 J. Byng Diary 25 June in Torrington Diaries II. 89 It [sc. a letter] is written in a good stile, and in a firm, and pathetic manner.

1806 E. Jerningham Poems IV. (ed. 9) 75 He distinguished himself by a peculiarly persuasive and pathetic manner of speaking.

1889 D. Hannay Life F. Marryat viii. 125 It [sc. Masterman Ready] is pathetic, and yet it is not mawkish.

†2. Expressing or arising from passion or strong emotion; passionate, emotional; earnest. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > characterized by passion

passionalc1443

passionatea1586

pathetical1596

compassionful1604

pathetic1648

fevered1744

inflammatory1874

full-hearted1876

Latin1914

1648 J. Beaumont Psyche ii. cxlv. 24 She..Renews her thanks, and her pathetike Vows.

1681 T. D'Urfey Progress Honesty viii. 9 She out of patience grows, And quells the little Rebel with pathetick blows.

1755 E. Young Centaur v, in Wks. (1757) IV. 241 Heaven..joins my pathetic wish.

1822 Ld. Byron Let. 1 Mar. (1979) IX. 118 Our meeting was quite sentimental—really pathetic on both sides.

†a. (Of a bodily movement) expressive of emotion; or relating to the emotions. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > [adjective]

affectivec1443

pathetical1603

affectual1604

pectorala1631

pathetic1649

affectuous1664

sentimental1765

pathological1796

pathematic1822

emotive1830

emotional1831

affectional1844

spiritual1848

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [adjective]

pathetic1649

pathognomic1681

pathognomical1815

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [adjective] > indicating emotion

feelinga1586

pathetic1649

resentful1656

1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia i. iv. 16 That species of motion which they call Pathetique.

1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Anat. Brain in Five Treat. xvii. 117 This Nerve..serves also for the producing some pathetick motions of the Eye.

1719–20 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman (1721) 12 Tully considered the Dispositions of a..less mercurial Nation, by dwelling almost entirely on the pathetick Part.

b. pathetic fallacy n. the attribution of human emotion or responses to animals or inanimate things, esp. in art and literature.First used by John Ruskin.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > personification > attribution of emotions to inanimate objects

pathetic fallacy1856

1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 160 All violent feelings..produce..a falseness in..impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the ‘Pathetic fallacy’.

1856 ‘G. Eliot’ in Westm. Rev. Apr. 631 Mr. Ruskin..enters on his special subject, namely landscape painting. With that intense interest in landscape which is a peculiar characteristic of modern times, is associated the ‘Pathetic Fallacy’—the transference to external objects of the spectator's own emotions.

1895 C. H. Herford Spenser's Shepheards Cal. p. xlviii Pastoral nature is founded upon the ‘pathetic fallacy’.

1959 Listener 6 Aug. 223/2 Many awaited death..while the pathetic fallacy laboured away with ill winds and rain.

1990 Folk Roots Aug. 49/1 Moving Hearts took the main stage by storm (pathetic fallacy) in a strong reunion set.

†4. Perhaps: causing a physical sensation; affecting the bodily senses. Obsolete. rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective] > causing physical sensation

sensific1634

pathetic1653

sensigenous1874

aesthesiogenic1879

sensifacient1879

sensificatory1879

1653 R. Mason in J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) Let. to Author sig. *** The stem, bark, leaves, and fruit are of such various..pathetique qualities.

5. Anatomy. Designating the trochlear (fourth cranial) nerve, and the superior oblique muscle of the eye which it supplies. Now rare.Cf. quot. 1681 at sense A. 3a, and pathetical adj. 4.

ΘΚΠ

the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [adjective] > specific cranial nerves

pathetic1681

pathetical1681

wandering1718

trigeminal1830

trifacial1840

oculomotor1861

vagal1885

oculimotor1890

oculimotory1890

oculogyric1922

statoacoustic1928

1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Pathetic, to passion belonging, nerves so called by Dr. Willis.

1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Pathetick Nerves, are the Fourth pair arising from the Top of the Medulla Oblongata.

1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2363/2 These nerves have obtained the name pathetic, from their serving to move the eyes in the various passions.

1797 Encycl. Brit. I/ 761/1 The fourth pair, named pathetic,—which is wholly spent upon the musculus trochlearis of the eye.

1826 Lancet 1 July 428/2 Meckel appears to regard the anastomosis of the pathetic with the ophthalmic branch as constant.

1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 271 The fourth pair of nerves, called also the Trochlear or Pathetic.

1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) xii. 279 The fourth or pathetic nerve is a very slender nerve.

a. colloquial. Miserably inadequate; of such a low standard as to be ridiculous or contemptible.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adjective]

unledeeOE

sorryOE

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scurvy?1577

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measled1596

lamented1611

thrallfula1618

despicable1635

deplorable1642

so-and-so1656

poorish1657

squalida1660

lamentable1676

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shan1714

execrable1738

quisby1807

hole in the wall1822

measly1847

bum1878

shag-bag1888

snidey1890

pathetic1900

1900 Westm. Gaz. 2 July 3/1 Philosophers cling with the same pathetic insistence as members of Parliament to their traditional bi-party system.

1911 E. Ferber Frog & Puddle in Buttered Side Down (1941) 102 Effie's budget bulged here and there with such pathetic items as hand-embroidered blouses, thick club steaks, and parquet tickets for Maude Adams.

1969 Listener 10 July 41/1 The military government clearly thinks it is established for good. The alleged plots against it are either mythical or, when genuine, pathetic.

1974 Liverpool Echo (Football ed.) 26 Oct. 3/2 The standard of refereeing in English soccer is pathetic. There is no consistency.

2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 26/3 There can never be any excuse for killing children.., and the pathetic verbal cavorting of political and military spokesmen is a disgrace.

b. Designating or relating to art, music, etc., which is expressive of failure, inadequacy, or alienation. Esp. in pathetic art, pathetic rock.

ΘΚΠ

society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > specific movement or period

classical1546

pastoral1566

classic1597

Medicean1652

romantic1812

tedesco1814

realistic1829

realista1832

pseudo-classic1833

classicist1838

pseudo-classical1838

renaissant1839

modernist1848

post-classic1850

post-classical1851

pseudo-Gothic1853

classicizing1865

classicistic1866

serio-grotesque1873

geometric1877

neoclassical1877

modernistic1878

neoclassic1878

pseudo-archaic1878

William Morris1883

protocorinthian1884

veristic1884

William and Mary1886

Yuan1888

romanticistic1889

veritistic1894

auto-destructive1895

pre-Romantic1895

Trajanic1906

neo-realistic1909

New Romantic1909

neo-realist1912

futuristic1915

postmodern1916

Dada1918

Dadaist1918

surrealist1918

proto-Romantic1920

expressionistic1921

modernista1924

super-realist1925

superrealistic1925

postmodernist1926

proto-Baroque1926

post-symbolist1927

pre-modernist1927

surrealistic1930

Renaissancist1932

Colonial Revival1934

neo-baroque1935

socialist-realist1935

social realist1949

social realistic1949

kitchen sink1954

William IV1955

formalistic1957

Zhdanovite1957

neo-Dadaist1960

neo-modernist1960

William Morrisy1960

neo-Dada1962

Zhdanovist1966

conceptual1969

conceptualist1973

po-mo1987

pathetic1990

1990 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 14 Aug. f8/1 Pathetic art is adamantly anti-idealistic, because mass culture feeds on the propagation of idealized images.

1992 Utne Reader Nov. 100/1 Today's pathetic artists stumble down the low road of apathy and alienation.

1996 San Francisco Examiner (Nexis) 1 May c1 ‘Creep’ is the ultimate in pathetic rock, a fabulously catchy, uncommonly dramatic and comical anthem about a loser longing to be loved by a ‘special’ someone.

2001 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 15 Apr. f2 In the late 80s and early 90s, ‘slacker’ and ‘pathetic’ art..spoke to downsized expectations.

†B. adv.

= pathetically adv. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [adverb]

rulyeOE

ruefullyc1225

ruthfullyc1225

piteouslyc1300

miserably?a1425

piteousc1425

pitifullyc1450

pietously1474

touchingly?1507

lamentably1585

pitiful1600

pitiedly1661

meltingly1680

pitiably1688

pathetic1724

pathetically1740

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [adverb] > in manner affecting tender emotions

pathetic1724

pathetically1740

1724 W. Philips Belisarius v. 47 Extol His Fame, and dwell pathetic on his Wrongs.

1754 S. Bowden Poems Var. Subj. 45 Its hoary honours, and majestic head, To save the favourite limb, pathetic plead.

1792 Sequel Adventures Munchausen vi. 120 I spoke as pathetic as possible.

1830 J. Thomson Poet. Wks. I. 204 Whose skilful touch Pathetic drew the impassioned heart.

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单词	pathetic
释义	patheticn. Brit. /pəˈθɛtɪk/, U.S. /pəˈθɛdɪk/ Forms: see pathetic adj. and adv. Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: pathetic adj. Etymology: < pathetic adj. With sense 2 compare Hellenistic Greek παθητικόν the pathetic style (cited as a Greek word in Cicero), French pathétique that which causes emotion, pathetic style (1674). Compare earlier pathos n. 1. †a. Pathetic language or feeling; pathos. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > sorrow or grief > lamentation or expression of grief > [noun] > instance or act of lamenting moan?c1225 mean?c1250 bimena1325 lamentation1382 queryc1400 pinec1440 tragedy1536 lamentc1592 complaint?1606 conclamation1627 quiritation1634 throb1635 pathetic1667 dismals1774 jeremiad1780 complain1820 tangi1836 Jobism1855 wail1867 rune1922 vigil1956 1667 E. Waterhouse Short Narr. Fire London 84 Holy Job's pathetique is upon a like dismal accident. 1693 J. Dennis Impartial Critick iv. 36 An Audience which the Episode disturb'd by its Sublimity, and by its Pathetick. 1804 T. G. Fessenden Orig. Poems 196 Your true sublime, and lorn pathetic, she will abhor, like an emetic. a1849 H. Coleridge Ess. & Marginalia (1851) II. 218 What a contrast to the drunken pathetic of his weeping client! b. In plural. Pathetic expressions, sentiments, or outbursts. Cf. heroic n. 1c. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [noun] > expression or sentiment pathos1579 pathetics1702 1702 G. Farquhar Love & Business 118 Here is he furnish'd with Unity of Action.., Narrations, Deliberations, Didacticks, Patheticks, Monologues, [etc.]. 1747 S. Richardson Clarissa I. xxxiii. 228 Miss Pert, none of your pathetics, except in the right place. 1839 C. Dickens Nicholas Nickleby ii. 12 [He] went at once into such deep pathetics, that he knocked the first speaker clean out of the course. 1931 F. S. Oliver Endless Adventure i. xx. 100 A man who abounds in pathetics, and heroics, and other high-flown sentiments. 1998 Observer (Nexis) 4 Jan. 20 A comedy of pathetics, heroics and black intrigue. 2. With the. That which is pathetic; the pathetic style or genre. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [noun] > that which causes emotion pathetic1696 1696 J. Dennis Remarks Prince Arthur vi. 29 There is more of the Pathetick in them, than there is in all the rest of the Poem. 1705 tr. Aristotle Art of Poetry xix. 312 There are..four sorts of Tragedy... The second is the Pathetick, as Ajax, and the Ixions. 1766 J. Adams Diary 29 July (1961) I. 317 In what is this Man conspicuous? in Reasoning? in Imagination? in Painting? in the Pathetic? or what? 1858 C. Dickens Let. 25 Aug. (1995) VIII. 637 I very much doubt the Irish capacity of receiving the pathetic. 1939 S. McIlwaine Southern Poor-White 112 As for tragedy, he bogged down in the pathetic. 1993 C. Verba Music & French Enlightenm. 118 The pathetic is expressed through harmony and through inflections. †3. Anatomy. The trochlear (fourth cranial) nerve. Cf. pathetic adj. 5. Obsolete. rare.Apparently only attested in dictionaries or glossaries. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [noun] > pairs of cranial nerves > specific cranial nerves optic sinew?c1425 recurrent nerve1578 optic1615 optic nerve1615 recurrent1615 par vagum1666 fourth nerve1681 accessory nerve1682 chorda tympani1807 abducens1809 hypoglossus1811 pneumogastric1826 pneumogastric nerve1827 hypoglossal nerve1828 facial1834 fifth nerve1836–9 vagus1840 vagal nerve1854 vagus nerve1856 Jacobson's nerve1860 oculomotor1868 trigeminus1875 hypoglossal1876 oculimotor1890 pathetic1890 sixth1899 trigeminal1899 1890 Cent. Dict. Pathetic n., a trochlear or pathetic nerve; a patheticus. †4. In plural (with singular agreement). The study of the human emotions or passions. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > mental capacity > psychology > study of emotions > [noun] pathology1681 pathognomy1789 pathematologya1832 pathetics1896 1896 Idler Mar. 263/2 Pathological Pathetics..had..almost monopolised the conversation. 1899 Westm. Gaz. 12 Jan. 1/3 Pathetics is, or should be, the name of a study of the effects on a personality caused by an artistic appeal to the emotions. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, June 2005; most recently modified version published online March 2022). patheticadj.adv. Brit. /pəˈθɛtɪk/, U.S. /pəˈθɛdɪk/ Forms: 1500s–1600s pathetique, 1500s–1700s pathetick, 1600s pathetike, 1600s– pathetic; also Scottish pre-1700 pathetik. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin patheticus. Etymology: < post-classical Latin patheticus producing an effect upon the emotions (4th cent. as a technical term in rhetoric; in classical Latin authors as a Greek word) < ancient Greek παθητικός capable of feeling or emotion, impassioned, emotional < παθητός liable to suffer, subject to external influence < (παθ- , stem of πάσχειν to suffer and πάθος suffering (see pathos n.) + -τός , suffix forming adjectives) + -ικός -ic suffix. Compare French pathétique (1584), Italian patetico (1575), Spanish patético (1596 with reference to tragedy (compare sense A. 1b)), Catalan patètic (a1400). Compare earlier pathetical adj.In sense A. 5 after post-classical Latin nervus patheticus (T. Willis Cerebri Anatome (1664) sig. A6). Compare French nerf pathétique (1695), muscle pathétique (1842). A. adj. 1. a. Arousing sadness, compassion, or sympathy, esp. through vulnerability or sadness; pitiable. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [adjective] armlyeOE unseelyOE rulyOE ruefulc1225 ruthfulc1225 sorryc1225 piteousc1300 poorc1300 ruthlyc1300 pietousa1393 pitifulc1450 lamentablec1460 miserable?a1475 pitiablec1475 execrable1490 plainful1555 tristsum1567 passionatea1586 touchinga1586 pathetic1591 melting1593 remorseful?1615 compassionate1630 compassionable1635 ruesome1833 po'1866 little-boy-lost1957 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [adjective] > affecting tender emotions pathetic1591 1591 R. Bruce Serm. Edinb. (Isa. xxxviii. 16) sig. M4 A pathetick and cutted kind of speeche, where by he testifieth that his toong walde not serue him to expresse the mater. 1606 J. Day Ile of Guls ii Your onely way to mooue a sute by: Humbly complayning to your good worship, O tis most pathetick. 1637 T. Nabbes Microcosmus iii Sing her some pathetick madrigall full of cromatick flats. 1737 A. Pope Epist. of Horace ii. i. 14 The Boys and Girls whom Charity maintains, Implore your help in these pathetic strains. 1798 J. Ferriar Illustr. Sterne vi. 174 There is one passage..which the circumstances of Sterne's death render pathetic. 1829 E. Bulwer-Lytton Devereux I. i. ii. 15 Our parting with our uncle was quite pathetic. 1885 E. Clodd Myths & Dreams ii. x. 212 Indian mothers in pathetic custom drop their milk on the lips of the dead child. 1917 S. Leacock Frenzied Fiction vii. 124 A pathetic little mite in a rabbit-skin, with blue eyes and a slobbered face. 1990 J. Meyers D.H. Lawrence vii. 94 He appealed to Frieda's mother, emphasizing his shredded nerves and pathetic suffering. †b. gen. Producing an effect upon the emotions; moving, stirring, affecting. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [adjective] ruefulc1225 pathetical1563 touchinga1586 imprintingc1592 moving1594 pathetic1598 neara1616 affectivea1639 affectuous1664 tenderingc1694 affecting1703 tender1705 emotive1847 1598 J. Marston Scourge of Villanie iii. x. sig. H4 Some new pathetique Tragedie. 1606 J. Marston Parasitaster iii. sig. E3^v Did wee not shake the Prince with enargie?.. And most pathetique piercing Oratorie? 1665 R. Boyle Occas. Refl. iv. ix. sig. Dd7^v The more Instructive and Pathetick passages [of a sermon]. 1701 J. Dennis in H. A. Needham Taste & Crit. 18th Cent. (1952) 61 That the speech by which poetry makes its imitation must be pathetic is evident, for passion is still more necessary to it than harmony. 1705 tr. A. Dacier in tr. Aristotle Art of Poetry xiii. 230 Euripides..is the most Affecting and Pathetick of all the Poets. 1762 R. Symmer in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1827) 2nd Ser. IV. 450 A very proper speech, delivered in a noble and pathetic manner. 1789 J. Byng Diary 25 June in Torrington Diaries II. 89 It [sc. a letter] is written in a good stile, and in a firm, and pathetic manner. 1806 E. Jerningham Poems IV. (ed. 9) 75 He distinguished himself by a peculiarly persuasive and pathetic manner of speaking. 1889 D. Hannay Life F. Marryat viii. 125 It [sc. Masterman Ready] is pathetic, and yet it is not mawkish. †2. Expressing or arising from passion or strong emotion; passionate, emotional; earnest. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > passion > [adjective] > characterized by passion passionalc1443 passionatea1586 pathetical1596 compassionful1604 pathetic1648 fevered1744 inflammatory1874 full-hearted1876 Latin1914 1648 J. Beaumont Psyche ii. cxlv. 24 She..Renews her thanks, and her pathetike Vows. 1681 T. D'Urfey Progress Honesty viii. 9 She out of patience grows, And quells the little Rebel with pathetick blows. 1755 E. Young Centaur v, in Wks. (1757) IV. 241 Heaven..joins my pathetic wish. 1822 Ld. Byron Let. 1 Mar. (1979) IX. 118 Our meeting was quite sentimental—really pathetic on both sides. 3. †a. (Of a bodily movement) expressive of emotion; or relating to the emotions. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > [adjective] affectivec1443 pathetical1603 affectual1604 pectorala1631 pathetic1649 affectuous1664 sentimental1765 pathological1796 pathematic1822 emotive1830 emotional1831 affectional1844 spiritual1848 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [adjective] pathetic1649 pathognomic1681 pathognomical1815 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > manifestation of emotion > [adjective] > indicating emotion feelinga1586 pathetic1649 resentful1656 1649 J. Bulwer Pathomyotomia i. iv. 16 That species of motion which they call Pathetique. 1681 S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Anat. Brain in Five Treat. xvii. 117 This Nerve..serves also for the producing some pathetick motions of the Eye. 1719–20 J. Swift Let. to Young Gentleman (1721) 12 Tully considered the Dispositions of a..less mercurial Nation, by dwelling almost entirely on the pathetick Part. b. pathetic fallacy n. the attribution of human emotion or responses to animals or inanimate things, esp. in art and literature.First used by John Ruskin. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > literature > style of language or writing > figure of speech > figures of meaning > [noun] > personification > attribution of emotions to inanimate objects pathetic fallacy1856 1856 J. Ruskin Mod. Painters III. 160 All violent feelings..produce..a falseness in..impressions of external things, which I would generally characterize as the ‘Pathetic fallacy’. 1856 ‘G. Eliot’ in Westm. Rev. Apr. 631 Mr. Ruskin..enters on his special subject, namely landscape painting. With that intense interest in landscape which is a peculiar characteristic of modern times, is associated the ‘Pathetic Fallacy’—the transference to external objects of the spectator's own emotions. 1895 C. H. Herford Spenser's Shepheards Cal. p. xlviii Pastoral nature is founded upon the ‘pathetic fallacy’. 1959 Listener 6 Aug. 223/2 Many awaited death..while the pathetic fallacy laboured away with ill winds and rain. 1990 Folk Roots Aug. 49/1 Moving Hearts took the main stage by storm (pathetic fallacy) in a strong reunion set. †4. Perhaps: causing a physical sensation; affecting the bodily senses. Obsolete. rare. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > physical sensibility > ability to be perceived by senses > [adjective] > causing physical sensation sensific1634 pathetic1653 sensigenous1874 aesthesiogenic1879 sensifacient1879 sensificatory1879 1653 R. Mason in J. Bulwer Anthropometamorphosis (rev. ed.) Let. to Author sig. *** The stem, bark, leaves, and fruit are of such various..pathetique qualities. 5. Anatomy. Designating the trochlear (fourth cranial) nerve, and the superior oblique muscle of the eye which it supplies. Now rare.Cf. quot. 1681 at sense A. 3a, and pathetical adj. 4. ΘΚΠ the world > life > the body > nervous system > nerve > specific nerves > [adjective] > specific cranial nerves pathetic1681 pathetical1681 wandering1718 trigeminal1830 trifacial1840 oculomotor1861 vagal1885 oculimotor1890 oculimotory1890 oculogyric1922 statoacoustic1928 1681 Table of Hard Words in S. Pordage tr. T. Willis Remaining Med. Wks. Pathetic, to passion belonging, nerves so called by Dr. Willis. 1704 J. Harris Lexicon Technicum I Pathetick Nerves, are the Fourth pair arising from the Top of the Medulla Oblongata. 1754 New & Compl. Dict. Arts & Sci. III. 2363/2 These nerves have obtained the name pathetic, from their serving to move the eyes in the various passions. 1797 Encycl. Brit. I/ 761/1 The fourth pair, named pathetic,—which is wholly spent upon the musculus trochlearis of the eye. 1826 Lancet 1 July 428/2 Meckel appears to regard the anastomosis of the pathetic with the ophthalmic branch as constant. 1881 St. G. Mivart Cat 271 The fourth pair of nerves, called also the Trochlear or Pathetic. 1930 H. G. Newth Marshall & Hurst's Junior Course Pract. Zool. (ed. 11) xii. 279 The fourth or pathetic nerve is a very slender nerve. 6. a. colloquial. Miserably inadequate; of such a low standard as to be ridiculous or contemptible. ΘΚΠ the mind > goodness and badness > inferiority or baseness > wretchedness > [adjective] unledeeOE sorryOE evila1131 usellc1175 wanlichec1275 bad1276 sorry1372 meana1375 caitiff1393 loddera1400 woefula1400 foulc1400 wretched1450 meschant?1473 unselc1480 peevisha1522 miser1542 scurvy?1577 forlorn1582 villainous1582 measled1596 lamented1611 thrallfula1618 despicable1635 deplorable1642 so-and-so1656 poorish1657 squalida1660 lamentable1676 mesquina1706 shan1714 execrable1738 quisby1807 hole in the wall1822 measly1847 bum1878 shag-bag1888 snidey1890 pathetic1900 1900 Westm. Gaz. 2 July 3/1 Philosophers cling with the same pathetic insistence as members of Parliament to their traditional bi-party system. 1911 E. Ferber Frog & Puddle in Buttered Side Down (1941) 102 Effie's budget bulged here and there with such pathetic items as hand-embroidered blouses, thick club steaks, and parquet tickets for Maude Adams. 1969 Listener 10 July 41/1 The military government clearly thinks it is established for good. The alleged plots against it are either mythical or, when genuine, pathetic. 1974 Liverpool Echo (Football ed.) 26 Oct. 3/2 The standard of refereeing in English soccer is pathetic. There is no consistency. 2002 Jewish Chron. 2 Aug. 26/3 There can never be any excuse for killing children.., and the pathetic verbal cavorting of political and military spokesmen is a disgrace. b. Designating or relating to art, music, etc., which is expressive of failure, inadequacy, or alienation. Esp. in pathetic art, pathetic rock. ΘΚΠ society > leisure > the arts > the arts in general > [adjective] > specific movement or period classical1546 pastoral1566 classic1597 Medicean1652 romantic1812 tedesco1814 realistic1829 realista1832 pseudo-classic1833 classicist1838 pseudo-classical1838 renaissant1839 modernist1848 post-classic1850 post-classical1851 pseudo-Gothic1853 classicizing1865 classicistic1866 serio-grotesque1873 geometric1877 neoclassical1877 modernistic1878 neoclassic1878 pseudo-archaic1878 William Morris1883 protocorinthian1884 veristic1884 William and Mary1886 Yuan1888 romanticistic1889 veritistic1894 auto-destructive1895 pre-Romantic1895 Trajanic1906 neo-realistic1909 New Romantic1909 neo-realist1912 futuristic1915 postmodern1916 Dada1918 Dadaist1918 surrealist1918 proto-Romantic1920 expressionistic1921 modernista1924 super-realist1925 superrealistic1925 postmodernist1926 proto-Baroque1926 post-symbolist1927 pre-modernist1927 surrealistic1930 Renaissancist1932 Colonial Revival1934 neo-baroque1935 socialist-realist1935 social realist1949 social realistic1949 kitchen sink1954 William IV1955 formalistic1957 Zhdanovite1957 neo-Dadaist1960 neo-modernist1960 William Morrisy1960 neo-Dada1962 Zhdanovist1966 conceptual1969 conceptualist1973 po-mo1987 pathetic1990 1990 Los Angeles Times (Nexis) 14 Aug. f8/1 Pathetic art is adamantly anti-idealistic, because mass culture feeds on the propagation of idealized images. 1992 Utne Reader Nov. 100/1 Today's pathetic artists stumble down the low road of apathy and alienation. 1996 San Francisco Examiner (Nexis) 1 May c1 ‘Creep’ is the ultimate in pathetic rock, a fabulously catchy, uncommonly dramatic and comical anthem about a loser longing to be loved by a ‘special’ someone. 2001 San Diego Union-Tribune (Nexis) 15 Apr. f2 In the late 80s and early 90s, ‘slacker’ and ‘pathetic’ art..spoke to downsized expectations. †B. adv. = pathetically adv. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > quality of exciting pity > [adverb] rulyeOE ruefullyc1225 ruthfullyc1225 piteouslyc1300 miserably?a1425 piteousc1425 pitifullyc1450 pietously1474 touchingly?1507 lamentably1585 pitiful1600 pitiedly1661 meltingly1680 pitiably1688 pathetic1724 pathetically1740 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > quality of affecting the emotions > [adverb] > in manner affecting tender emotions pathetic1724 pathetically1740 1724 W. Philips Belisarius v. 47 Extol His Fame, and dwell pathetic on his Wrongs. 1754 S. Bowden Poems Var. Subj. 45 Its hoary honours, and majestic head, To save the favourite limb, pathetic plead. 1792 Sequel Adventures Munchausen vi. 120 I spoke as pathetic as possible. 1830 J. Thomson Poet. Wks. I. 204 Whose skilful touch Pathetic drew the impassioned heart. 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