Word Meanings - CONSOLATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

To console; to comfort. Shak.

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• COMFORTLESS
  Without comfort or comforts; in want or distress; cheerless. Comfortless through turanny or might. Spenser. Syn. -- Forlorn; desolate; cheerless; inconsolable; disconsolate; wretched; miserable. -- Com"fort*less*ly, adv. -- Com"fort*less*ness, n.
• COMFORTABLY
  In a comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• COMFORT
  1. To make strong; to invigorate; to fortify; to corroborate. Wyclif. God's own testimony . . . doth not a little comfort and confirm the same. Hooker. 2. To assist or help; to aid. I . . . can not help the noble chevalier: God comfort him in this
• COMFORTABLE
  1. Strong; vigorous; valiant. Wyclif. Thy conceit is nearer death than thy powers. For my sake be comfortable; hold death a while at the arm's end. Shak. 2. Serviceable; helpful. Be comfortable to my mother, your mistress, and make much of her.
• COMFORTABLENESS
  State of being comfortable or comforting manner. Speak ye comfortably to Jerusalem. Is. xl. 2.
• CONSOLE
  To cheer in distress or depression; to alleviate the grief and raise the spirits of; to relieve; to comfort; to soothe. And empty heads console with empty sound. Pope. I am much consoled by the reflection that the religion of Christ has
• COMFORTMENT
  Act or process of administering comfort. The gentle comfortment and entertainment of the said embassador. Hakluyt.
• COMFORTRESS
  A woman who comforts. To be your comfortress, and to preserve you. B. Jonson.
• CONSOLER
  One who gives consolation.
• COMFORTER
  The Holy Spirit, -- reffering to his office of comforting believers. But the Comforter, which is the Holy Ghost, whom the Father will send in my name, he shall teach you all things. John xiv. 26. 3. A knit woolen tippet, long and narrow.
• DISCOMFORTABLE
  1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. Sir P. Sidney. 2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. -- Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n.
• MISCOMFORT
  Discomfort.
• RECOMFORTLESS
  Without comfort.
• UNCOMFORTABLE
  1. Feeling discomfort; uneasy; as, to be uncomfortable on account of one's position. 2. Causing discomfort; disagreeable; unpleasant; as, an uncomfortable seat or situation. The most dead, uncomfortable time of the year. Addison. -- Un*com"fort*a*ble*ness,
• DISCOMFORT
  1. To discourage; to deject. His funeral shall not be in our camp, Lest it discomfort us. Shak. 2. To destroy or disturb the comfort of; to deprive oas, a smoky chimney discomforts a family.
• RECOMFORTURE
  The act of recomforting; restoration of comfort. Shak.
• RECOMFORT
  To comfort again; to console anew; to give new strength to. Bacon. Gan her recomfort from so sad affright. Spenser.