pathetical

• There remains but the Remembrancer's place of the Exchequer office: and very pathetical is the motto of our arms for us—'The victory is in the Cross.' —  Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe
• The art of the speaker is directed to five points: the discovery of persuasives (whether ethical, pathetical, or argumentative), arrangement, diction, memory, delivery. —  Historical Sketches, Volume I (of 3) The Turks in Their Relation to Europe; Marcus Tullius Cicero; Apollonius of Tyana; Primitive Christianity
• I shall produce only one passage out of this poet, which is the misfortune of his galligaskins My galligaskins, which have long withstood The winter's fury and encroaching frosts By time subdued (what will not time subdue This is admirably pathetical, and shows very well the vicissitudes of sublunary things. —  Lives of the Poets, Volume 1
• There remains but the Remembrancer's place of the Exchequer office: and very pathetical is the motto of our arms for us--'The victory is in the Cross.' —  Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid.
• To show me these things as he went on, to celebrate beforehand in a comico-pathetical manner my good fortune in seeing myself immortalized in such exquisite handwriting, and that in a style which no printing-press could attain, gave another occasion for passing the most agreeable hours. —  Autobiography: Truth and Fiction Relating to My Life

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