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Webster 1913 Edition

Pathopoeia

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Pathˊo-poe′ia

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Noun.

;

pl.

-ias

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[NL., from Gr.

παθοποιῒα

;

πάθοσ

passion +

ποιεῖν

to make.]

(Rhet.)

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

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