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Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. A speech, or figure of speech, contrived to move the passions.
Wiktionary
- n. music The arousing of emotion in someone who hears music; a passage designed to arouse emotions
- n. rhetoric Speech that moves hearers emotionally, especially as the speaker attempts to elicit an emotional response by way of demonstrating his/her own feelings.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. (Rhet.) A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion.
Etymologies
- From Ancient Greek παθοποιία (pathopoiia); πάθος (pathos, "passion") + ποιέω (poieō, "make"). (Wiktionary)
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practitioner of curative treatment; sufferer from a disease
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she Rhetoric and (in later use) Music. The arousing of emotion in a hearer; a passage designed to arouse emotion or affect the emotions. Aug 6, 2008