consolate

First attested in 1477, in Middle English; borrowed from Latin cōnsōlātus, perfect active participle of cōnsōlor, see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix). Doublet of console.

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.

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.’

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

• colonates, stone coal

consolate

1. inflection of consolare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

consolate f pl

1. feminine plural of consolato

• scatolone

cōnsōlāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cōnsōlātus

consolate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of consolar combined with te