tristitiate
English
editEtymology
editFrom Latin tristitia (“sadness”), from tristis (“sad”).
Verb
edittristitiate (third-person singular simple present tristitiates, present participle tristitiating, simple past and past participle tristitiated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To sadden.
- 1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political:
- Calamitie doth so much tristitiate, as that he neuer sees the flashes of some warming ioy
References
edit“tristitiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.