[em.phat.ic] adj [Gk emphatikos, fr. emphainein] (ca. 1708) 1: uttered with or marked by emphasis
2: tending to express oneself in forceful speech or to take decisive action
3: attracting special attention
4: constituting or belonging to a set of tense forms in English consisting of the auxiliary do followed by an infinitive without to that are used to facilitate rhetorical inversion or to emphasize something -- em.phat.i.cal.ly adv