sympathizev.

Brit.

/ˈsɪmpəθʌɪz/, U.S.

/ˈsɪmpəˌθaɪz/

Forms: Also 1500s–1600s sim-.

Etymology: < French sympathiser (from 16th cent.), < sympathie sympathy n.: see -ize suffix. Compare Italian simpatizzare, etc.

a. intransitive. 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 Pathology, to be or become disordered in consequence of the disorder of some other part: cf. sympathy n. 1a, 1b. Const. with.In modern use often coloured by, or taken as figurative from, sense 4.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > suffering > suffer mental pain [verb (intransitive)] > suffer with or like another

sympathize1598

the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > of a disease: act [verb (intransitive)] > sympathize

sympathize1598

the world > action or operation > operation upon something > exert operative influence [verb (intransitive)] > be affected by

yield1794

sympathize1876

ail1918

1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche 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.

1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. iii. ii. 48 The Heart, and other inferiour parts, which sympathize and are much troubled.

1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 81 Among the hidden secrets of nature, that of sympathizing is one of the truest.

1674 W. Bates Harmony Divine Attrib. (1688) ix. 176 The Earth trembled and the Rocks rent; the most insensible Creatures sympathiz'd with him.

1797 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) xiii. 289 The stomach sympathizes with this state of the kidneys, for it is affected with sickness and vomiting.

a1812 Buckminster 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.

1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 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.

1879 O. N. Rood Mod. Chromatics xlv. 61 The landscape..sympathizes with the sky, and near the sun..assumes an orange..hue.

†b. transitive in causal sense: To make ‘sympathetic’, cause to be similarly affected. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 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. intransitive.

a. To have an affinity; to agree in nature, disposition, qualities, or fortunes; to be alike; with with, to be like, resemble. Cf. sympathy n. 2. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > be similar [verb (intransitive)] > border upon, approach, or approximate

coast1382

to want little (also naught)a1500

approacha1538

bear1582

sympathize1605

to trench on or upon1622

neighboura1640

to border on or upona1694

approximate1771

verge1827

begin1833

1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 118 So, did he make..The Heau'ns and Starres of one selfe substance bright. To th' end these Lampes dispersed in the Skies, Might with their Orbe, it with them Sympathize.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vii. 143 The men doe sympathize with the Mastiffes, in robustious and rough comming on.

a1643 W. Cartwright Siedge v. iii, in Comedies (1651) sig. M2^v Your Majesty And I do sympathize most strangely in Our Fortunes, that we should both of 's be married Just at one very instant.

1668 The 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. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)]

accord1340

cord1340

concordc1374

agree1447

to stand togetherc1449

rhyme?a1475

commonc1475

gree?a1513

correspond1529

consent1540

cotton1567

pan1572

reciprocate1574

concur1576

meet1579

suit1589

sorta1592

condog1592

square1592

fit1594

congrue1600

sympathize1601

symbolize1605

to go even1607

coherea1616

congreea1616

hita1616

piece1622

to fall in1626

harmonize1629

consist1638

comply1645

shadow1648

quare1651

atonea1657

symphonize1661

syncretize1675

chime1690

jibe1813

consone1873

1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. C4^v Let me liue lou'd in my husbands eies, Whose thoughts with mine, may sweetly simpathize.

1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. xi. 37 Strong and long rootes neuer Sympathize with firme hard and solid soyles.

1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. B j So doth it also best simpathize with reason.

1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn i, in Poems 3 Nature in aw to him Had doff't her gawdy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize.

1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 133 Make choice of a Purgative simpathizing with those parts.

1695 J. Dryden tr. R. de Piles in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 175 Blue and yellow are two Colours which sympathize.

1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. i. 174 A Universal Union, Coherence, or Sympathizing of Things.

†3.

a. transitive. To agree with, answer or correspond to, match. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)]

conspirec1384

accorda1393

to stand with ——c1449

to sit with ——a1500

correspond1545

resound1575

square1583

quader1588

to comport with1591

sympathize1594

beset1597

range1600

even1602

consort1607

to run with ——1614

countenancea1616

hita1616

sympathy1615

filea1625

quadrate?1630

consist1638

commensurate1643

commensure1654

to strike in1704

jig1838

harmonize1852

chime in with1861

equate1934

to tie in1938

to tune in1938

to tie up1958

1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H3^v True sorrow then is feelinglie suffiz'd, When with like semblance it is simpathiz'd.

1596 E. Spenser Hymne in Honour of Beautie 192 In your choice of Loues..That likest to your selues ye them select, The which your forms first sourse may sympathize.

1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. i. 46 The senslesse brands will simpathize The heauy accent of thy moouing tong, And in compassion weepe the fire out.

1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions 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. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)]

evenOE

comparisonc1374

measurea1382

remenec1390

compare1509

confer?1531

to lay togethera1568

lay1577

paragona1586

paragonize1589

set1589

sympathize1600

confront1604

to name on (also in) the same day1609

collate1612

to lay down by1614

sampler1628

to set together1628

matcha1649

run1650

vie1685

to put together1690

the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > expound, explain [verb (transitive)] > with examples

sympathize1600

illustrate1612

sample1613

1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. D1^v Who right conceits the miseries of Iob,..Can fittest deeme their griefes true qualitie, And sympathize poore Souldiers miserie.

1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxxxii. sig. F2 Thou truly faire, wert truly simpathizde, In true plaine words, by thy true telling friend.

1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 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.

1645 R. 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. Obsolete.

ΘΚΠ

the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > in orderly combination

sympathize1598

co-ordinate1837

orchestrate1858

1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 49 A message well simpathisd, a Horse to be embassadoure for an Asse.

1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 78 Of this great Frame, the Parts so due-deuis'd, This Body, tun'd so, measur'd, sympathiz'd.

a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 400 All..That by this simpathized one daies error Haue suffer'd wrong.

a. intransitive. 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 n. 3a – 3c.) Const. with a person (or, in extended or figurative use, a thing); in, with (rarely †at) a feeling, experience, etc.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity for [verb (transitive)] > sympathize with

yfeeleOE

to feel for ——a1533

sympathize1607

to go out1628

the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > fellow feeling > fellow-feel [verb (intransitive)]

sympathize1607

fellow-feel1612

consanguinate1621

enter1851

relate1947

the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity or compassion [verb (intransitive)] > sympathize

feelc1390

sympathize1850

1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. iv. sig. G2^v There was but one sole man..With whom I ere could sympathize .

1644 O. Cromwell in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. 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.

1685 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, & Event Bks. (1885) IV. 114 Friends and foes pittyed my case, sympathized with me.

1746 P. Francis tr. Horace Art of Poetry 146 With them, who laugh, our social Joy appears; With them, who mourn, we sympathise in Tears.

1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 78 A heart that sympathises at human happiness.

1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 340 We may with patience bear our mod'rate ills, And sympathise with others, suff'ring more.

1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. i. 11 The elder of the two seemed the most to sympathize with her mirth.

1850 A. L. Waring Hymns & Medit. (hymn) ii A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise.

a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 166 Commerce first made nations sympathise with each other.

1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §8. 101 He was..without the imagination and reverence which enable men to sympathise with any past at all.

1888 Poor Nellie ii. ix. 152 I do sympathise in the anxiety you will feel about George!

b. transferred. To express sympathy, esp. for another's sorrow or suffering; to condole (with a person).

ΘΚΠ

the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity for [verb (transitive)] > sympathize with > express sympathy with

moan1581

condole1588

collachrymate1593

commiserate1598

condolea1603

sympathize1748

1748 [implied in: T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxii. 199 An old gentlewoman, under pretence of sympathizing, visited me. (at sympathizing n.)].

1841 Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. 4 June (1874) I. viii. 295 A public meeting held..for the purpose of ‘sympathising’ with the seven ministers.

1908 E. Fowler Between 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 n. 3d.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > agree with [verb (transitive)]

to go ineOE

cordc1380

consentc1386

covin1393

condescend1477

agree1481

correspond1545

concur1590

to fall in1602

suffrage1614

to hit it1634

colour1639

to take with ——1646

to be with1648

to fall into ——1668

to run in1688

to think with1688

meet1694

coincide1705

to go in1713

to say ditto to1775

to see with ——1802

sympathize1828

the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > favour > win favour with [verb (transitive)] > favour

to let well ofc1330

favour1340

to take, accept, receive in greec1374

likea1393

smilec1400

to take agreea1425

agreec1450

to fawn on, upon1477

to bear good mind toa1516

to look upon ——c1515

to look on ——1540

vouchsafe1582

conceit1589

relish1594

to look to ——1611

impatronize1629

aspect1663

sympathize1828

to put one's money on1847

1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. Pref. 16 In his terror of Papistry he sympathized with the Puritans.

a1842 T. Arnold Fragm. on Church (1845) 220 There will be much in it in which you will heartily sympathize.

1864 J. H. Newman Apologia (1904) i. 8/1 As far as I know, on this point alone, he and Hurrell Froude intimately sympathized.

1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope vii. 160 Pope..sympathized with his schemes.

This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022).

单词	sympathize
释义	sympathizev. Brit. /ˈsɪmpəθʌɪz/, U.S. /ˈsɪmpəˌθaɪz/ Forms: Also 1500s–1600s sim-. Etymology: < French sympathiser (from 16th cent.), < sympathie sympathy n.: see -ize suffix. Compare Italian simpatizzare, etc. 1. a. intransitive. 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 Pathology, to be or become disordered in consequence of the disorder of some other part: cf. sympathy n. 1a, 1b. Const. with.In modern use often coloured by, or taken as figurative from, sense 4. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > suffering > suffer mental pain [verb (intransitive)] > suffer with or like another sympathize1598 the world > health and disease > ill health > a disease > types > of a disease: act [verb (intransitive)] > sympathize sympathize1598 the world > action or operation > operation upon something > exert operative influence [verb (intransitive)] > be affected by yield1794 sympathize1876 ail1918 1598 A. M. tr. J. Guillemeau Frenche 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. 1621 R. Burton Anat. Melancholy i. i. iii. ii. 48 The Heart, and other inferiour parts, which sympathize and are much troubled. 1632 J. Hayward tr. G. F. Biondi Eromena 81 Among the hidden secrets of nature, that of sympathizing is one of the truest. 1674 W. Bates Harmony Divine Attrib. (1688) ix. 176 The Earth trembled and the Rocks rent; the most insensible Creatures sympathiz'd with him. 1797 M. Baillie Morbid Anat. (ed. 2) xiii. 289 The stomach sympathizes with this state of the kidneys, for it is affected with sickness and vomiting. a1812 Buckminster 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. 1876 J. R. Lowell Among my Bks. 2nd Ser. 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. 1879 O. N. Rood Mod. Chromatics xlv. 61 The landscape..sympathizes with the sky, and near the sun..assumes an orange..hue. †b. transitive in causal sense: To make ‘sympathetic’, cause to be similarly affected. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1661 J. Glanvill Vanity of Dogmatizing 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. intransitive. a. To have an affinity; to agree in nature, disposition, qualities, or fortunes; to be alike; with with, to be like, resemble. Cf. sympathy n. 2. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > relationship > similarity > be similar [verb (intransitive)] > border upon, approach, or approximate coast1382 to want little (also naught)a1500 approacha1538 bear1582 sympathize1605 to trench on or upon1622 neighboura1640 to border on or upona1694 approximate1771 verge1827 begin1833 1605 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. i. iv. 118 So, did he make..The Heau'ns and Starres of one selfe substance bright. To th' end these Lampes dispersed in the Skies, Might with their Orbe, it with them Sympathize. a1616 W. Shakespeare Henry V (1623) iii. vii. 143 The men doe sympathize with the Mastiffes, in robustious and rough comming on. View more context for this quotation a1643 W. Cartwright Siedge v. iii, in Comedies (1651) sig. M2^v Your Majesty And I do sympathize most strangely in Our Fortunes, that we should both of 's be married Just at one very instant. 1668 The 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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree/be in harmony/be congruous [verb (intransitive)] accord1340 cord1340 concordc1374 agree1447 to stand togetherc1449 rhyme?a1475 commonc1475 gree?a1513 correspond1529 consent1540 cotton1567 pan1572 reciprocate1574 concur1576 meet1579 suit1589 sorta1592 condog1592 square1592 fit1594 congrue1600 sympathize1601 symbolize1605 to go even1607 coherea1616 congreea1616 hita1616 piece1622 to fall in1626 harmonize1629 consist1638 comply1645 shadow1648 quare1651 atonea1657 symphonize1661 syncretize1675 chime1690 jibe1813 consone1873 1601 J. Marston et al. Iacke Drums Entertainm. ii. sig. C4^v Let me liue lou'd in my husbands eies, Whose thoughts with mine, may sweetly simpathize. 1610 W. Folkingham Feudigraphia i. xi. 37 Strong and long rootes neuer Sympathize with firme hard and solid soyles. 1632 W. Lithgow Totall Disc. Trav. B j So doth it also best simpathize with reason. 1645 J. Milton On Christ's Nativity: Hymn i, in Poems 3 Nature in aw to him Had doff't her gawdy trim, With her great Master so to sympathize. 1683 W. Salmon Doron Medicum i. 133 Make choice of a Purgative simpathizing with those parts. 1695 J. Dryden tr. R. de Piles in tr. C. A. Du Fresnoy De Arte Graphica 175 Blue and yellow are two Colours which sympathize. 1709 Ld. Shaftesbury Moralists iii. i. 174 A Universal Union, Coherence, or Sympathizing of Things. †3. a. transitive. To agree with, answer or correspond to, match. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > agreement, harmony, or congruity > agree, harmonize, or be congruous with [verb (transitive)] conspirec1384 accorda1393 to stand with ——c1449 to sit with ——a1500 correspond1545 resound1575 square1583 quader1588 to comport with1591 sympathize1594 beset1597 range1600 even1602 consort1607 to run with ——1614 countenancea1616 hita1616 sympathy1615 filea1625 quadrate?1630 consist1638 commensurate1643 commensure1654 to strike in1704 jig1838 harmonize1852 chime in with1861 equate1934 to tie in1938 to tune in1938 to tie up1958 1594 W. Shakespeare Lucrece sig. H3^v True sorrow then is feelinglie suffiz'd, When with like semblance it is simpathiz'd. 1596 E. Spenser Hymne in Honour of Beautie 192 In your choice of Loues..That likest to your selues ye them select, The which your forms first sourse may sympathize. 1597 W. Shakespeare Richard II v. i. 46 The senslesse brands will simpathize The heauy accent of thy moouing tong, And in compassion weepe the fire out. View more context for this quotation 1606 W. Warner Continuance Albions 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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > discovery > comparison > compare [verb (transitive)] evenOE comparisonc1374 measurea1382 remenec1390 compare1509 confer?1531 to lay togethera1568 lay1577 paragona1586 paragonize1589 set1589 sympathize1600 confront1604 to name on (also in) the same day1609 collate1612 to lay down by1614 sampler1628 to set together1628 matcha1649 run1650 vie1685 to put together1690 the mind > mental capacity > intelligibility > meaning > explanation, exposition > expound, explain [verb (transitive)] > with examples sympathize1600 illustrate1612 sample1613 1600 S. Nicholson Acolastus his After-witte sig. D1^v Who right conceits the miseries of Iob,..Can fittest deeme their griefes true qualitie, And sympathize poore Souldiers miserie. 1609 W. Shakespeare Sonnets lxxxii. sig. F2 Thou truly faire, wert truly simpathizde, In true plaine words, by thy true telling friend. View more context for this quotation 1638 T. Herbert Some Yeares Trav. (rev. ed.) 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. 1645 R. 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. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the world > relative properties > order > put in (proper) order [verb (transitive)] > in orderly combination sympathize1598 co-ordinate1837 orchestrate1858 1598 W. Shakespeare Love's Labour's Lost iii. i. 49 A message well simpathisd, a Horse to be embassadoure for an Asse. 1606 J. Sylvester tr. G. de S. Du Bartas Deuine Weekes & Wks. (new ed.) ii. iv. 78 Of this great Frame, the Parts so due-deuis'd, This Body, tun'd so, measur'd, sympathiz'd. a1616 W. Shakespeare Comedy of Errors (1623) v. i. 400 All..That by this simpathized one daies error Haue suffer'd wrong. View more context for this quotation 4. a. intransitive. 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 n. 3a – 3c.) Const. with a person (or, in extended or figurative use, a thing); in, with (rarely †at) a feeling, experience, etc. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity for [verb (transitive)] > sympathize with yfeeleOE to feel for ——a1533 sympathize1607 to go out1628 the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > fellow feeling > fellow-feel [verb (intransitive)] sympathize1607 fellow-feel1612 consanguinate1621 enter1851 relate1947 the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity or compassion [verb (intransitive)] > sympathize feelc1390 sympathize1850 1607 B. Jonson Volpone iii. iv. sig. G2^v There was but one sole man..With whom I ere could sympathize . View more context for this quotation 1644 O. Cromwell in H. Ellis Orig. Lett. Eng. Hist. (1824) 1st Ser. 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. 1685 O. Heywood Autobiogr., Diaries, & Event Bks. (1885) IV. 114 Friends and foes pittyed my case, sympathized with me. 1746 P. Francis tr. Horace Art of Poetry 146 With them, who laugh, our social Joy appears; With them, who mourn, we sympathise in Tears. 1762 O. Goldsmith Citizen of World I. 78 A heart that sympathises at human happiness. 1785 W. Cowper Task iv. 340 We may with patience bear our mod'rate ills, And sympathise with others, suff'ring more. 1838 E. Bulwer-Lytton Alice I. i. i. 11 The elder of the two seemed the most to sympathize with her mirth. 1850 A. L. Waring Hymns & Medit. (hymn) ii A heart at leisure from itself, To soothe and sympathise. a1862 H. T. Buckle Misc. Wks. (1872) I. 166 Commerce first made nations sympathise with each other. 1874 J. R. Green Short Hist. Eng. People ii. §8. 101 He was..without the imagination and reverence which enable men to sympathise with any past at all. 1888 Poor Nellie ii. ix. 152 I do sympathise in the anxiety you will feel about George! b. transferred. To express sympathy, esp. for another's sorrow or suffering; to condole (with a person). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > compassion > feel pity for [verb (transitive)] > sympathize with > express sympathy with moan1581 condole1588 collachrymate1593 commiserate1598 condolea1603 sympathize1748 1748 [implied in: T. Smollett Roderick Random I. xxii. 199 An old gentlewoman, under pretence of sympathizing, visited me. (at sympathizing n.)]. 1841 Ld. Cockburn Jrnl. 4 June (1874) I. viii. 295 A public meeting held..for the purpose of ‘sympathising’ with the seven ministers. 1908 E. Fowler Between 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 n. 3d. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > statement > agreement, concurrence, or unanimity > agree with [verb (transitive)] to go ineOE cordc1380 consentc1386 covin1393 condescend1477 agree1481 correspond1545 concur1590 to fall in1602 suffrage1614 to hit it1634 colour1639 to take with ——1646 to be with1648 to fall into ——1668 to run in1688 to think with1688 meet1694 coincide1705 to go in1713 to say ditto to1775 to see with ——1802 sympathize1828 the mind > attention and judgement > esteem > favour > win favour with [verb (transitive)] > favour to let well ofc1330 favour1340 to take, accept, receive in greec1374 likea1393 smilec1400 to take agreea1425 agreec1450 to fawn on, upon1477 to bear good mind toa1516 to look upon ——c1515 to look on ——1540 vouchsafe1582 conceit1589 relish1594 to look to ——1611 impatronize1629 aspect1663 sympathize1828 to put one's money on1847 1828 I. D'Israeli Comm. Life Charles I I. Pref. 16 In his terror of Papistry he sympathized with the Puritans. a1842 T. Arnold Fragm. on Church (1845) 220 There will be much in it in which you will heartily sympathize. 1864 J. H. Newman Apologia (1904) i. 8/1 As far as I know, on this point alone, he and Hurrell Froude intimately sympathized. 1880 L. Stephen Alexander Pope vii. 160 Pope..sympathized with his schemes. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1919; most recently modified version published online June 2022). < v.1594
随便看	to look down to look down on to look down one's nose to look down one's nose at to look down upon to look downward to look downwards to look etc ways for sunday to look feel like something the cat has brought in to know a hawk from a handsaw to know a hawk from a hernshaw to know a move or two to know a person a thing or two to know a person by her company to know a person by his company to know a person by the company he keeps to know a person by the company she keeps to know a person in the biblical sense to know a thing or two to know about to know all is to forgive all to know all the angles to know all the answers to know asunder to know backwards