tristitiate

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.