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sympathize, v.|ˈsɪmpəθaɪz|
Also 6–7 sim-.
[a. F. sympathiser (from 16th c.), f. sympathie sympathy: see -ize. Cf. It. simpatizzare, etc.]
1. intr. To suffer with or like another; to be affected in consequence of the affection of some one or something else; to be similarly or correspondingly affected; to respond sympathetically to some influence; spec. in Path., to be or become disordered in consequence of the disorder of some other part: cf. sympathy 1, 1 b. Const. with.
In mod. use often coloured by, or taken as fig. from, sense 4.
1597A. M. tr. Guillemeau's Fr. Chirurg. 48/2 As soone as the actione of one parte is hindered, al the other partes of the body doe therwithe conspire and sympathise. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. i. iii. ii. 48 The Heart, and other inferiour parts, which sympathize and are much troubled. 1632[see sympathizing vbl. n.]. 1674W. Bates Harmony Div. Attrib. ix. (1688) 176 The Earth trembled and the Rocks rent; the most insensible Creatures sympathiz'd with him. 1797M. Baillie Morb. Anat. (1807) 288 The stomach sympathizes with this state of the kidneys, for it is affected with sickness and vomiting. a1812Buckminster Serm. (1827) I. 49 The mind will sympathize so much with the anguish and debility of the body, that it will be..too distracted to fix itself in meditation. 1876Lowell Among my Bks. Ser. ii. 250 In the great poets there is an exquisite sensibility both of soul and sense that sympathizes like gossamer sea-moss with every movement of the element in which it floats. 1879O. N. Rood Chromatics xlv. 61 The landscape..sympathizes with the sky, and near the sun..assumes an orange..hue.
†b. trans. in causal sense: To make ‘sympathetic’, cause to be similarly affected. Obs. rare.
1661Glanvill Van. Dogm. 205 That some have conferr'd at distance by sympathized hands,..the hands of two friends being sympathized by a transferring of flesh from one into the other..; the least prick in the hand of one, the other will be sensible of,..in the same part of his own.
†2. intr.
a. To have an affinity; to agree in nature, disposition, qualities, or fortunes; to be alike; with with, to be like, resemble. Cf. sympathy 2. Obs.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. iv. 101 So, did he make..The Heav'ns and Stars, of one same substance bright; To th' end these Lamps dispersed in the Skies, Might, with their Orb, it with them sympathize. 1599Shakes. Hen. V, iii. vii. 158 The men doe sympathize with the Mastiffes, in robustious and rough comming on. a1643W. Cartwright Siege v. viii, Your Majesty And I do sympathize most strangely in Our Fortunes, that we should both of 's be married Just at one very instant. 1668The Rivals 6 My thoughts are of the same complexion too, Our fears do Sympathize, just like our Loves.
†b. To agree, be in harmony, accord, harmonize. Const. with. Obs.
1600Marston, etc. Jack Drums Entert. ii. (1601) C iv b, Let me liue lou'd in my husbands eies, Whose thoughts with mine, may sweetly simpathize. 1610W. Folkingham Feudigr. i. xi. 37 Strong and long rootes neuer Sympathize with firme hard and solid soyles. 1629Milton Hymn Nativ. i, Nature in aw to him Had doff't her gawdy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize. 1632Lithgow Trav. B j, So doth it also best simpathize with reason. 1683Salmon Doron Med. i. 133 Make choice of a Purgative simpathizing with those parts. 1695Dryden tr. Dufresnoy's Art Paint. (1716) 183 Blue and Yellow are two Colours which sympathize. 1711[see sympathizing vbl. n.].
†3. trans. To agree with, answer or correspond to, match. Obs.
1593Shakes. Rich. II, v. i. 46 The sencelesse Brands will sympathize The heauie accent of thy mouing Tongue, And in compassion, weepe the fire out. 1593― Lucr. 1113 True sorrow then is feelinglie suffiz'd, When with like semblance it is simpathiz'd. 1596Spenser Hymn Beauty 192 In your choice of Loues..That likest to your selues ye them select, The which your forms first sourse may sympathize. 1606Warner Alb. Eng. xiv. To Rdr. 333 Seeke Loues that ours shall sympathize.
†b. To represent or express by something corresponding or fitting; to apprehend mentally by the analogy of something else. Obs.
c1600Shakes. Sonn. lxxxii, Thou truly faire, wert truly simpathizde, In true plaine words, by thy true telling friend. 1600S. Nicholson Acolastus' After-witte D j b, Who right conceiues the miseries of Iob,..Can fittest deeme their griefes true qualitie, And sympathize poore Souldiers miserie. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 12 Some Boobyes, weary of flight, made our Ship their pearch, an animall so simple as suffers any to take her without feare,..which to sympathize I have as simply for your sport depicted. 1645R. Beake Let. fr. Sommer Isl. in Prynne Discov. Blazing Stars App. 10 Able to sympathize another mans case by his owne.
†c. To make up or compound of corresponding parts or elements; to form or contrive harmoniously or consistently. Obs.
1588Shakes. L.L.L. iii. i. 52 A message well sympathis'd, a Horse to be embassadour for an Asse. 1590[see sympathized]. 1606Sylvester Du Bartas ii. iv. ii. Magnificence 1343 Of this great Frame, the parts so due-devis'd, This Bodie, tun'd so, measur'd, sympathiz'd.
4. intr. To feel sympathy; to have a fellow-feeling; to share the feelings of another or others; to be affected by the condition or experience of another with a feeling similar or corresponding to that of the other; spec. to be affected with pity for the suffering or sorrow of another, to feel compassion. (Cf. sympathy 3 a–c.) Const. with a person (or, in extended or fig. use, a thing); in, with (rarely † at) a feeling, experience, etc.
1605B. Jonson Volpone iii. iv, There was but one sole man..With whom I ere could sympathize. 1644Cromwell in Ellis Orig. Lett. Ser. i. III. 300 It's our duty to sympathize in all mercyes; that wee praise the Lord together, in chastisements or tryalls, that soe wee may sorrowe together. 1685O. Heywood Diaries, etc. (1885) IV. 114 Friends and foes pittyed my case, sympathized with me. 1746Francis tr. Horace, Art of Poetry 146 With them, who laugh, our social Joy appears; With them, who mourn, we sympathise in Tears. 1762Goldsm. Cit. W. xxi, A heart that sympathises at human happiness. 1784Cowper Task iv. 340 We may with patience bear our mod'rate ills, And sympathise with others, suff'ring more. 1838Lytton Alice i. i, The elder of the two seemed the most to sympathize with her mirth. 1850A. L. Waring Hymn, ‘Father, I know’ ii, A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathize. a1862Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 166 Commerce first made nations sympathise with each other. 1874Green Short Hist. ii. §8. 101 He was..without the imagination and reverence which enable men to sympathise with any past at all. 1888Poor Nellie ii. ix. 152, I do sympathise in the anxiety you will feel about George!
b. transf. To express sympathy, esp. for another's sorrow or suffering; to condole (with a person).
1748[see sympathizing vbl. n.]. 1841Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. (1874) I. 295 A public meeting held..for the purpose of ‘sympathising’ with the seven ministers. 1908[Miss Fowler] Betw. Trent & Ancholme 311 A clergyman and his wife went to sympathise with a neighbour.
c. In weakened sense: To agree or be disposed to agree in some opinion or way of thinking, to be of (about) the same mind with a person or party; also, with in or (now usually) with, to approve or incline to approve, to regard with favour (a scheme, cause, etc.). Cf. sympathy 3 d.
1828D'Israeli Chas. I, I. Pref. 16 In his terror of Papistry he sympathized with the Puritans. a1842Arnold Fragm. on Church (1845) 220 There will be much in it in which you will heartily sympathize. 1864Newman Apol. i. (1904) 8/1 As far as I know, on this point alone, he and Hurrell Froude intimately sympathized. 1880L. Stephen Pope vii. 160 Pope..sympathized with his schemes. |