contristate

English

Etymology

(deprecated template usage) [etyl] Latin contristatus, past participle of contristare (“to sadden”).

Verb

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make sorrowful; to sadden or grieve.

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   • William Chillingworth

     They are contristated to repentance.

   • H. E. Dennehy

     For the insufferable sadness of a heart smitten almost prostrate grieves, contristates, and affects me.

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “contristate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)

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Italian

Verb

contristate

1. second-person plural present indicative of contristare
2. second-person plural imperative of contristare
3. feminine plural of contristato

Anagrams

• contestarti, cornettista

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Latin

Verb

(deprecated template usage) contrīstāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of contrīstō