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
• 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.
• “You are to mingle with all these considerations that of the cross, and the death of the Saviour of mankind; but you are to do it in a moving pathetical manner; by those figures which are proper to excite such emotions, as cause in our hearts a deep sorrow for our sins, in the presence of an offended God, even to draw tears from the eyes of your audience. —  The Works of John Dryden
• 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 —  Memoirs of Lady Fanshawe, Wife of Sir Richard Fanshawe, bart., ambassador from Charles the Second to the courts of Portugal and Madrid.

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