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a narrow way to be pafied on foot.—In the way of righ- 
teoufnefs is life, and in the path-way thereof there is no 
death. Prov. xii, a8. 
Alas, that Love, whole view is muffled Hill, 
Should without eyes fee path-ways to his ill ! Shakefp. 
PATHE'MA, f. [Greek.] Pathos; warmth; affe&ion 
of mind, 
PATHET'IC, or Pathetical, udj. [wa 9 o?, Gr. paf- 
iion.] Affecting the pafflons ; paffionate ; moving.—How 
pathetic is that expoftulation of Job, when, for the trial of 
his patience, he was made to look upon himfelf in this 
deplorable condition ! Spectator. 
While thus pathetic to the prince he fpoke, 
From the brave youth the ftreaming pafflon broke. Pope. 
PATHE.T'IC, f. Pathos.—No man can think that the 
author of the Rapeof the Lock and Eloifa, wanted ima¬ 
gination, fenlibility, or pathetic. Warton's Pope. 
PATHET'ICALLY, aclv. In fuch a manner as may 
ftrike the pafflons.—Thefe reafons, fo pathetically urged, 
and fo admirably railed by the profopopoia of Nature 
fpeaking to her children with fo much authority, deferve 
the pains I have taken. I) ryden. 
PATHET'ICALNESS, ./• Quality of being pathetic; 
quality of moving the pafflons.—Thefe words clofe the 
difcourfe with wonderful grace; furprife the hearers with 
unagreeable civility; and imprefs upon them a ftrong 
opinion of the fpeaker’s fincerity, charity, and benevo- 
knce to mankind. Had they been placed any-where elfe, 
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the patheticalnefs , grace, and dignity, of the fentence, had 
been much abated. Blackmail's Sacr, Claff. 
PATH'IC,/! [from wafisw, Gr. to fuller.] One who 
fuffers himfelf to be abufed contrary to nature. 
PA'THLESS, adj. Untrodden ; not marked with paths. 
—Aik thou the citizens of pathlefs woods. Sundys. 
In fortune’s empire blindly thus we go, 
And wander after pathlefs deftiny, 
Whofe dark reforts fince prudence cannot know, 
In vain it would provide. Dryden. 
Through mills obfcure ffle wings her tedious way, 
Now wanders dazzled with too bright a day; 
And from the fummit of a pathlefs coaft 
Sees infinite, and in that fight is loll. Prior. 
PATHOGNOMONIC, or Pathognomical, adj. [from 
the Gr. TraSo;, fuffering, and yiva<x>w, to know.] Deno¬ 
ting fuch figns of a difeafe as are infeparable, defigning 
the efflence or real nature of the difeafe : not fymptomatic. 
—Fear and fadnefs are the pathognomical figns of all kinds 
of melancholy. For rand on Love Mel. 1640. — He has the 
true pathognomonic fign of love, jealoufy ; for no body 
will fuller his miltrefs to be treated at that rate. Ar- 
bulhnot. 
PATHOGNOMON'IC, f A proper diftinguifhing and 
infeparable fign of a difeafe. 
PATHOLOG'ICAL, adj, [from pathology. ] Relating 
to the tokens or difcoverable effects of a diltemper. 
PATHOL'OGIST, f. [fvompathology ] One who treats 
of the difeafes of the human body. 
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