tristitiate

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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)

  1. (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.