contristate

English

Etymology

Latin contristatus, past participle of contristare (“to sadden”).

Verb

contristate (third-person singular simple present contristates, present participle contristating, simple past and past participle contristated)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To make sorrowful; to sadden or grieve.
   • 1631, Francis [Bacon], “IX. Century.”, in Sylua Syluarum: Or A Naturall Historie. In Ten Centuries. […], 3rd edition, London: […] William Rawley; [p]rinted by J[ohn] H[aviland] for William Lee […], →OCLC:

     Somewhat they [Harmonical sounds and Discordant Sounds] do contristate , but very little

   • 1637, William Chillingworth, The Religion of Protestants:

     They are contristated to repentance.

   • 1861, H. E. Dennehy, The Church of the First Three Centuries:

     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 The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.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.)

Italian

Etymology 1

Verb

contristate

1. inflection of contristare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

Etymology 2

Participle

contristate f pl

1. feminine plural of contristato

Anagrams

• antescritto, contestarti, cornettista

Latin

Verb

contrīstāte

1. second-person plural present active imperative of contrīstō

Spanish

Verb

contristate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of contristar combined with te