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A trodden way; a footway. The dewy paths of meadows we will tread. Dryden.

Of, pertaining to, or designating, emotion or suffering. [R.] Chalmers.

Affecting or moving the tender emotions, esp. pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. "Pathetic action." Macaulay. No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic. E. Porter. Pathetic muscle (Anat.), the superior oblique muscle of the eye. -- Pathetic nerve (Anat.), the fourth cranial, or…

Pathetic. [R.] -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ly, adv. -- Pa*thet"ic*al*ness, n.

See Mesmerism. L. Sunderland.

One who discovers a way or path; one who explores untraversed regions. The cow is the true pathfinder and pathmaker. J. Burroughs.

A male who submits to the crime against nature; a catamite. [R.] B. Jonson.

Having no beaten path or way; untrodden; impenetrable; as, pathless woods. Trough the heavens' wide, pathless way. Milton.

One who, or that which, makes a way or path.

tissues and fluids in infectious diseases, and supposed to be the cause of the disease; a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium; -- opposed to zymogene.

Pathogeny.

Pathogenic.

Of or pertaining to pathogeny; producting disease; as, a pathogenic organism; a pathogenic bacterium.

The generation, and method of development, of disease; as, the pathogeny of yellow fever is unsettled.

lly or decisively characteristic of a disease; indicating with certainty a disease; as, a pathognomonic symptom. The true pathognomonic sign of love jealousy. Arbuthnot.

Expression of the passions; the science of the signs by which human passions are indicated.

Of or pertaining to pathology. -- Path`o*log"ic*al*ly, adv.

One skilled in pathology; an investigator in pathology; as, the pathologist of a hospital, whose duty it is to determine the causes of the diseases.

The science which treats of diseases, their nature, causes, progress, symptoms, etc.

A speech, or figure of speech, designed to move the passion. Smart.