consolate

comparative more consolate · superlative most consolate

1. obsoleteComforted, consoled.
2. humorousobsoleteNot disconsolate; contented.

   [O]ne morning, like Sir Leoline in Christabel, ‘he woke and found his lady dead,’ and remained a very consolate widower, with one small child.

   1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section I

present singular third person consolates · participle present consolating · participle past consolated · past consolated

1. nonstandardobsoleteTo console; to comfort.

   To consolate thine eare.

   c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s Well, that Ends Well”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]

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   ‘You just talkinʼ to consolate yoʼself by word of mouth.’

   1937, Zora Neale Hurston, Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 44