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▪ I. conˈtrist, v. Obs. or arch.
In 5 pa. pple. contryste.
[ad. F. contrist-er (12th c. in Littré):—L. contristāre: see next.]
trans. To make sad or sorrowful; to sadden, grieve.
1490Caxton Eneydos xxii. (1890) 80 Whiche..constristeth theym wyth a sorowfull mynde. Ibid. xxvii. 105 To thende that he were therof contryste in remembraunce pardurable. 1653Urquhart Rabelais ii. iii, Lord God, must I again contrist myself? 1761Sterne Tr. Shandy iii. xx, To deject and contrist myself with so bad and melancholy an account. 1818J. Brown Psyche 10 As disappointments to contrist him, Arose in life and back'd his system.
Hence conˈtristed ppl. a.
1625tr. Boccaccio's Decam. II. 86 b, That your contristed spirits should be chearfully revived. 1808J. Barlow Columb. iv. 631 Contristed sects his sullen fury fly.
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