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Sympathized

Sympathize \Sym"pa*thize\, v. i. [imp. & p. p. Sympathized; p. pr. & vb. n. Sympathizing.] [F. sympathiser. See Sympathy.]

  1. To have a common feeling, as of bodily pleasure or pain.

    The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be too distracted to fix itself in meditation.
    --Buckminster.

  2. To feel in consequence of what another feels; to be affected by feelings similar to those of another, in consequence of knowing the person to be thus affected.

    Their countrymen . . . sympathized with their heroes in all their adventures.
    --Addison.

  3. To agree; to be in accord; to harmonize.
    --Dryden.

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alt. (context North America English) (en-past of: sympathize) vb. (context North America English) (en-past of: sympathize)

Usage examples of "sympathized".

Others sympathized fully with what was called the Southern cause, held firmly the right of secession, and hated cordially the Yankees, but doubted either the practicability or the expediency of secession, and opposed it till resolved on, but, after it was resolved on, yielded to none in their earnest support of it.

Ideas, and fully sympathized with his warmly-glowing and poetic utterance of philosophic truths.

Belisarius sympathized alone in the fate of his deserted and devoted friends.

From his prison he escaped to the Vatican: the duke of Spoleto hastened to his rescue, Charlemagne sympathized in his injury, and in his camp of Paderborn in Westphalia accepted, or solicited, a visit from the Roman pontiff.

Among the Barbarians there were many, whose spontaneous virtue supplied their laws and corrected their manners, who performed the duties, and sympathized with the affections, of social life.

Yet they dissembled till they had obtained, or stolen, a safe passage to the Italian continent: their brethren of Aversa sympathized in their indignation, and the province of Apulia was invaded as the forfeit of the debt.

After evacuating the conquests which he could no longer defend, the son of Guiscard embarked for Italy, and was embraced by a father who esteemed his merit, and sympathized in his misfortune.

The people sympathized in their grief, repented of their own fury, and detested the indecent joy of Rienzi, who visited the spot where these illustrious victims had fallen.

He had his hands on his hips and was quietly chuckling at the scene before him, as one who, although old, sympathized with the natural and harmless sportiveness of young people and would as lief as not join in a prank or two.

He wished to appear before Congress at the earliest opportunity, in order to swear under oath that he had never been a communist, had never sympathized with any communist cause.