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.
1490. Caxton, Eneydos, xxii. (1890), 80. Whiche … constristeth theym wyth a sorowfull mynde. Ibid., xxvii. 105. To thende that he were therof contryste in remembraunce pardurable.
1653. Urquhart, Rabelais, II. iii. Lord God, must I again contrist myself?
1761. Sterne, Tr. Shandy, III. xx. To deject and contrist myself with so bad and melancholy an account.
1818. J. Brown, Psyche, 10. As disappointments to contrist him, Arose in life and back’d his system.
Hence Contristed ppl. a.
1625. trans. Boccaccio’s Decam., II. 86 b. That your contristed spirits should be chearfully revived.
1808. J. Barlow, Colomb., IV. 631. Contristed sects his sullen fury fly.
