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liqueur (iou) and Pathetic (medicine)


liqueur (iou)



liqueur noun. M18.
[French = LIQUOR noun.]
Any of various strong sweet alcoholic spirits flavoured with aromatic substances, usu. drunk after a meal. Also, a glass of such a drink. M18.
ellipt. A liqueur glass; a liqueur chocolate. E20.
Comb.: liqueur brandy, liqueur whisky: of supposed special quality, intended to be drunk straight in small quantities like a liqueur; liqueur chocolate a chocolate with a liqueur filling; liqueur glass a very small drinking-glass used for liqueurs; liqueur whisky: see liqueur brandy above.

Pathetic (medicine)


pathetic


1. Expressing or showing anger; passionate.

2. Affecting or moving the tender emotions, especially. Pity or grief; full of pathos; as, a pathetic song or story. "Pathetic action." "No theory of the passions can teach a man to be pathetic." (E.

<anatomy> Porter) Pathetic muscle, the fourth cranial, or trochlear, nerve, which supplies the superior oblique, or pathetic, muscle of the eye. The pathetic, a style or manner adapted to arouse the tender emotions.

Origin: L. Patheticus, Gr, fr, to suffer: cf. F. Pathetique. See Pathos.

Source: Websters Dictionary