Pathan (path an)

A person of Afghan race settled in Hindu stan, or one of kindred race in eastern Afghanistan. During the next three reigns the valley rendered an un willing allegiance to the central authority, and in the reign of Aurangzeb the Pathans succeeded in freeing themselves from Mogul supremacy. Encyc. Brit., XVIII. 684. pat hematic (path-e-mat'ik), a. [ τικός, liable to suffering or misfortune, Pertaining to or designating emotion or that which is suffered. Chalmers. [Rare.] pathetic (pa-thet'ik), a. and n. [OF. pat he que, F. pathétique = Sp. patético = Pg. pat he tico = It. patetico, patetico, also sensuous, impa ioned, showing pa ion; pa ionate. Yet by the way renews at every station Her cordial Thanks and her pathetick vows. J. Beaumont , Psyche, ii. 190. 2. Full of pathos; affecting or moving the feelings; exciting pity, pity, sorrow, grief, or other tender emotion; affecting: as, a pathetic song or discourse; pathetic expostulation. 'Tis pitiful..: To break a jest, when pity would inspire Pathetic exhortation. Cowper , Task, ii. 469. The effect of his discourses was heightened by a noble figure and by pathetic action. Macaulay . 3. In an at., trochlear: in designation of or ref erence to the fourth cranial nerve. II. n. A trochlear or pathetic nerve; a pathetic us. - Pathetic nerves, in an at . , the trochlear pathetical (pa-thet'i-kal), a . [ pathetic + -al .] See cuts under brain and encephalon . Same as pathetic . Sweet invocation of a child; most pretty and pathetical . Shak ., L. L. L., i. 2. 103. This very word "good" implies a description in itself more pithy, more re pathetical , than by any familiar exempli fication can be made manifest. Ford , Line of Life. He left the barren-beaten thoroughfare, Chose the green path that show'd the rarer foot. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. 2. The way, course, or track which an animal or any other thing follows in the air, in water, or in space: as, the path of a fish in the sea or of a bird in the air; the path of a planet or comet; the path of a meteor. There is a path which no fowl knoweth, and which the vulture's eye hath not seen. IMG:content-2461.png:[blocks in formation] sionately.-2. In a pathetic manner; in such a manner as to excite the tender emotions or feel ings; affectingly. pathetical ne (pa-thet'i-kal-ne The п. quality of being pathetic; pathos. pathetic us (pa-thet'i-kus), n.; pl. pathetic i (-sī). [NL.: see pathetic.] In an at., one of the fourth pair of cranial nerves; a trochlear or pathetic IMG:content-2462.png:[blocks in formation]