condole

verb

Etymology: PIE word *ḱóm Learned borrowing from Ecclesiastical Latin condolēre, the present active infinitive of condoleō (“to feel severe pain, suffer greatly; to suffer with or feel another’s pain, condole”), from Latin con- (prefix denoting a being or bringing together of several things) + doleō (“to suffer physical pain, hurt; to be sorry, grieve for, deplore, lament”) (ultimately from Proto-Indo-European *delh₁- (“to divide, split”)).

1. Followed by with: to express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with, someone; to lament in sympathy with someone.

   “[A]n Ambaſſador ſent from a Prince, to congratulate, condole, or to aſſiſt at a ſolemnity, though the Authority be Publique, yet becauſe the buſineſſe is Private, and belonging to him in his naturall capacity; is a Private perſon.”

   “[…] I doubt Madam, your complaints ought to be turned into acknovvledgments, and your Friends vvould have cauſe to rejoyce rather than condole vvith you; […]”

2. To express deep sorrow; to grieve, to lament.

   “Bott[om]. VVhat is Pyramus? a louer, or a tyrant? / Quin[ce]. A louer that kils himſelfe, moſt gallant, for loue. / Bott. That vvill aſke ſome teares in the true performing of it. If I doe it, let the Audience looke to their eyes: I vvil mooue ſtormes: I vvill condole, in ſome meaſure.”

   “As vve congratulate their thus preventing perſecution according to Chriſts precept, ſo vve cannot but condole, that the ſame perſons vvere aftervvards poiſoned vvith hereticall opinions, contrary to the expreſs vvord of God, and became Apoſtate Nazarites.”

3. To express regret or sorrow over (an undesirable event or other misfortune); to bemoan, to grieve, to lament.

   “Nay, compaſsion it ſelfe, comes to no great degree, if vvee haue not felt, in ſome proportion, in our ſelues, that vvhich vvee lament and condole in another.”

   “God is Serious in hearing our Prayers, and delivering us from our dangers, and removing our troubles, and beſtovving his Mercies. VVhen vve are afflicted he is afflicted vvith us, […] He condoleth their miſery vvhen he is forced to chaſtiſe them: […]”

4. To express condolence to, or sympathetic sorrow with (someone); to lament in sympathy with (someone).

   “Let vs condoll the knight: for lamkins vve vvill liue.”

   “I not condole the dead, but thoſe vvho're living, / To vvhom the fear of death, gives cauſe of grieveing.”

5. To express or feel sorrow for (oneself); to bewail, to mourn.

   “[A]s for our tramontane lovers, when they begin their midnight complaint with, My lodging upon the cold ground is, we are not to understand them in the rigour of the letter; since it would be impossible for a British swain to condole himself long in that situation, without really dying for his mistress.”