condole

Verb

condole (third-person singular simple present condoles, present participle condoling, simple past and past participle condoled)

1. (intransitive) Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.
   • She condoled with her father over the death of his mother.
   • [A]n Ambaſſador ſent from a Prince, to congratulate, condole, or to aſſiſt at a ſolemnity, though the Authority be Publique, yet becauſe the buſineſſe is Private, and belonging to him in his naturall capacity; is a Private perſon.1651, Thomas Hobbes, “Of the Publique Ministers of a Soveraign Power”, in Leviathan, or The Matter, Forme, & Power of a Common-wealth Ecclesiasticall and Civill, London: […] [William Wilson] for...
2. (intransitive, obsolete) To express deep sorrow; to grieve, to lament.
   • Bott[om]. VVhat is Pyramus? a louer, or a tyrant? / Quin[ce]. A louer that kils himſelfe, moſt gallant, for loue. / Bott. That vvill aſke ſome teares in the true performing of it. If I doe it, let the Audience looke to their eyes: I vvil mooue ſtormes: I vvill condole, in ſome meaſure.c. 1595–1596 (date written), William Shakespeare, A Midsommer Nights Dreame. […] (First Quarto), London: […] [Richard Bradock] for Thomas Fisher, […], published 1600, →OCLC, [Act I, scene ii]...
   • As vve congratulate their thus preventing perſecution according to Chriſts precept, ſo vve cannot but condole, that the ſame perſons vvere aftervvards poiſoned vvith hereticall opinions, contrary to the expreſs vvord of God, and became Apoſtate Nazarites.1650, Thomas Fuller, “Manasseh beyond Jordan”, in A Pisgah-sight of Palestine and the Confines thereof, with the History of the Old and New Testament Acted thereon, London: […] J. F. for John...

   Synonyms:

   besorrow, mourn, rue, aggrieve, darken, engrieve, erme, gloom, grieve, grieven

3. (formal, often, transitive, archaic or obsolete except India) To express regret or sorrow over (an undesirable event or other misfortune); to bemoan, to grieve, to lament.
   • Nay, compaſsion it ſelfe, comes to no great degree, if vvee haue not felt, in ſome proportion, in our ſelues, that vvhich vvee lament and condole in another.1624, John Donne, “23. Meditation”, in Deuotions upon Emergent Occasions, and Seuerall Steps in My Sicknes: […], London: […] A[ugustine] M[atthews] for Thomas Iones, →OCLC, page 599
   • God is Serious in hearing our Prayers, and delivering us from our dangers, and removing our troubles, and beſtovving his Mercies. VVhen vve are afflicted he is afflicted vvith us, […] He condoleth their miſery vvhen he is forced to chaſtiſe them: […]1649, Richard Baxter, “An Exhortation to Seriousness in Seeking Rest”, in The Saints Everlasting Rest: Or, A Treatise of the Blessed State of the Saints in Their Enjoyment of God in Glory. […]...

   Synonyms:

   bewail, mourn, afterthink, becry, begrieve, bemoan, bemourn, beweep, deplore, elegize

4. (obsolete, transitive) To express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with (someone); to lament in sympathy with (someone).
   • Let vs condoll the knight: for lamkins vve vvill liue.1599 (date written), [William Shakespeare], The Cronicle History of Henry the Fift, […] (First Quarto), London: […] Thomas Creede, for Tho[mas] Millington, and Iohn Busby […], published 1600, →OCLC...
   • I not condole the dead, but thoſe vvho're living, / To vvhom the fear of death, gives cauſe of grieveing.1662, Jo. Donne [i.e., John Donne the Younger], “[A Cabinet of Merry Conceits.] 98. Another [Of the Uncertainty of Life].”, in Donne’s Satyr. […], London: […] R. W. for M. Wright, […], →OCLC, page 64

   Synonyms:

   commiserate, feel sorry for, compassion, compassionate, feel someone's pain, mercify, pity, rue, take pity

5. (obsolete, reflexive, transitive) To express or feel sorrow for (oneself); to bewail, to mourn.
   • [A]s for our tramontane lovers, when they begin their midnight complaint with, My lodging upon the cold ground is, we are not to understand them in the rigour of the letter; since it would be impossible for a British swain to condole himself long in that situation, without really dying for his...1710 September 19 (Gregorian calendar), Isaac Bickerstaff [et al., pseudonyms; Richard Steele et al.], “Friday, September 9, 1710”, in The Tatler, number 222; republished in [Richard Steele], editor...