pathetIcal

[Eng. pathetic; -al.] 1. Pathetic, affecting, moving. 2. Pa ionate. pa-thet-Ic-al-ly, adv. [Eng. pathetical; -ly.] 1. In a pathetic manner; so as to excite emotion; affectingly. "No nation ever called so pathetically on the compas sion of all its neighbors."-Burke: Let. to a Member of the Nat. A embly. 2. Pa ionately. "The principal point was reserved to the last, and pathetically though briefly avouched." - Jackson : Divine E ence and Attributes , bk. ix., § 2.