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tristitiate

tristitiate verb: to sadden.

Verb

tristitiate (third-person singular simple present tristitiates, present participle tristitiating, simple past and past participle tristitiated)

  1. (obsolete, transitive) To sadden.
    • Calamitie doth so much tristitiate, as that he neuer sees the flashes of some warming ioy1623, Owen Feltham, Resolves: Divine, Moral, Political

Synonyms of tristitiate

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Forms of tristitiate

third-person singular presenttristitiates
present participletristitiating
past participletristitiated
pasttristitiated

Origin of tristitiate

From Latin tristitia (“sadness”), from tristis (“sad”).

Questions about tristitiate

What does tristitiate mean?
Tristitiate means to sadden.
What part of speech is tristitiate?
Tristitiate is a verb.
What is the past tense of tristitiate?
The past tense of tristitiate is tristitiated.

Words near tristitiate in the dictionary

  1. tristigmatic
  2. tristimuli
  3. tristimulus
  4. Tristin
  5. tristing
  6. tristitiate
  7. tristitiated
  8. tristness
  9. Triston
  10. Tristram
  11. tristramite

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