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English
Etymology
From Latin tristitia (“sadness”), from tristis (“sad”).
Verb
tristitiate (third-person singular simple present tristitiates, present participle tristitiating, simple past and past participle tristitiated)
- (obsolete, transitive) To sadden.
- Synonyms: attrist, contristate; see also Thesaurus: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
“tristitiate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.