Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
- To make sorrowful; grieve; contrist.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- verb obsolete To make sorrowful.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb obsolete, transitive To make
sorrowful ; tosadden orgrieve .
Etymologies
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Latin contristatus, past participle of contristare ("to sadden").
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