Obs. [ad. L. consōlāt-us, pa. pple. of consōlārī to console. (The pple. occurs in a pass. sense in later L.)]
1. Consoled, comforted. In early use as a pple.
1475. Caxton, Jason, 26 b. In his vaillyance they were reconforted, and in his good fortune consolate.
1635. Quarles, Embl., V. xv. 303. He comes to make thee consolate.
1773. J. Ross, Fratricide (MS.), VI. 491. Now consolate and pleas’d with having paid Nocturnal Orisons to Heaven.
1818. T. L. Peacock, Nightm. Abbey, 4. One morning … ‘he woke and found his lady dead,’ and remained a very consolate widower [With humorous reference to disconsolate].
† 2. loosely. Consolatory, bringing consolation.
1748. Richardson, Clarissa (1811), VII. 40. Both my love and my gratitude would make a visit … from my dear Miss Howe the most consolate thing in the world to me.
