The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compassionate \Com*pas"sion*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Compassionated; p. pr. & vb. n. Compassionating.] To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.
Compassionates my pains, and pities me.
--Addison.
Wiktionary
vb. (en-past of: compassionate)
Usage examples of "compassionated".
They pitied her, compassionated her lack of knowledge, of opportunities.
Cecily had only known her for a few weeks, and did not feel much drawn to her, but she compassionated her for sorrows known and suspected.
Before the mirror the matrimonial gift of Alderman John Hooper with a clear melancholy wise bright motionless compassionate gaze regarded Bloom while Bloom with obscure tranquil profound motionless compassionated gaze regarded the matrimonial gift of Luke and Caroline Doyle.
But when she caught me to her breast, kissed me, wept over me, compassionated me, and called me back to myself.
And as, possibly, she compassionated the daily anxieties which she must have perceived me suffer on her account, she resolved to put an end to my distress.