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Webster 1913 Edition

Condole

Con-dole′

,
Verb.
I.
[
imp. & p. p.
Condoled
;
p. pr. & vb. n.
Condoling
.]
[L.
condolere
;
con-
+
dolere
to feel pain, grieve. See
Doleful
.]
To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; – followed by with.
Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than
condole
with you.
Sir W. Temple.

Con-dole′

,
Verb.
T.
To lament or grieve over.
[R.]
I come not, Samson, to
condole
thy chance.
Milton.

Webster 1828 Edition

Condole

CONDOLE

,
Verb.
I.
[L., to ache, or to grieve.] To feel pain, or to grieve, at the distress or misfortunes of another.
Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you.
It is followed by with before the person for whom we feel grief.

CONDOLE

,
Verb.
T.
To lament or bewail with another, or on account of anothers misfortune. [Unusual.]
Why should our poet petition Isis for her safe delivery, and afterwards condole her miscarriage?

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