Crossword clues for condole
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Condole \Con*dole"\, v. t. To lament or grieve over. [R.]
I come not, Samson, to condole thy chance.
--Milton.
Condole \Con*dole"\, v. 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.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
late 15c., "to sorrow," from Late Latin condolere "to suffer with another," from com- "with" (see com-) + dolere "to grieve." Meaning "to express condolences" is recorded from 1650s. Related: Condoled; condoling.
Wiktionary
vb. 1 To grieve. 2 To express sympathetic sorrow; to lament in sympathy.
WordNet
v. express one's sympathetic grief, on the occasion of someone's death; "You must condole the widow"
Usage examples of "condole".
Lisconnel, and brought the neighbours together exclaiming and condoling, though not in great force, as there was a fair going on down beyant, which nearly all the men and some of the women had attended.
And it was Grayson Senior, not Junior, with whom Chips was destined later to condole.
Queen Isabella received him graciously, complimenting him on his courageous conduct at Loxa, and condoling with him on the loss of his teeth.
Only this morning Miss Truelove at the Anne Boleyn was condoling with me on your being mixed up in it.
Mansoul to condole her own misery when she had apostatised from her rightful King, but didst evade, and at all times turn her mind awry from those thoughts that had in them a tendency to lead her to repentance.
I was listened to, condoled with, and comforted with the remark that he would certainly be obliged to return to his house at night, and then he could not help hearing what I had to say.
After the usual compliments had passed, and the general had condoled with me on my weak state of health, he said he should like to buy my chaise and exchange it for a commodious carriage, in which I could travel all over Germany.
Saa had been almost as badly treated by the Charpillon as myself, and we might have condoled with one another, but the subject was not mentioned.
After the town of Mansoul had been in this sad and lamentable condition, for so long a time as I have told you, and no petitions that they presented their Prince with, all this while, could prevail, the inhabitants of the town, namely, the elders and chief of Mansoul, gathered together, and, after some time spent in condoling their miserable state and this miserable judgment coming upon them, they agreed together to draw up yet another petition, and to send it away to Emmanuel for relief.
After playing for three hours and losing all the time, he stopped play and came to condole with me on my heavy loss.
At supper the countess seemed to unbend a little, she condoled with me on my loss, and I said that I was glad of it as it made her speak so.
In the morning several persons came to condole with me, but I received their sympathy with great irreverence.
He bemoans them, and, condoles their state with the Secretary, saying, ‘Oh that my people had hearkened unto me, and that Mansoul had walked in my ways!
I was condoled with on my swollen hand, and I told the story of my duel.
Then they condoled him upon the evil plight of his nose, and seeing some marks upon his shirt, asked with seeming concern, if he had lost any blood in the fray?