consolateとは 意味・読み方・使い方

形容詞

consolate (comparative more consolate, superlative most consolate) (obsolete)

1. Comforted, consoled.
2. (humorous) Not disconsolate; contented.
   • 1818, Thomas Love Peacock, Nightmare Abbey, section I:

     [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.

派生語

動詞

consolate (third-person singular simple present consolates, present participle consolating, simple past and past participle consolated)

1. (obsolete or nonstandard) To console; to comfort.
   • 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]:

     To consolate thine eare.

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

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

参照

• “consolate”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

アナグラム

• colonates, stone coal