v. ? Obs. [a. F. attriste-r, f. à to + triste:—L. tristis sad.] To make sad, sadden.
1680. Sir W. Waller, Div. Medit. (1839), 103. Some aires and tunes … sensibly attrist, others comfort.
1791. H. Walpole, in Miss Berry’s Jrnl. & Corr., I. 307. Your tender nature is not made for such spectacles; and why attrist it without doing any service.
