consolate

Latin consolatus, p.p. See console (transitive verb). Back-formation from disconsolate.

consolate (comparative more consolate, superlative most consolate)

1. (humorous) Comforted, consoled.

consolate (third-person singular simple present consolates, present participle consolating, simple past and past participle consolated)

1. (obsolete or nonstandard) To console; to comfort.
   • c. 1604–1605 (date written), William Shakespeare, “All’s VVell, that Ends VVell”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act III, scene ii]:

     To consolate thine eare.

   • 1937, Zora Neale Hurston , Their Eyes Were Watching God, Virago Press (2018), page 44:

     ‘You just talkinʼ to consolate yoʼself by word of mouth.’

• consolate in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913

• colonates, stone coal

consolate

1. inflection of consolare:
   1. second-person plural present indicative
   2. second-person plural imperative

consolate f pl

1. feminine plural of consolato

• scatolone

cōnsōlāte

1. vocative masculine singular of cōnsōlātus

consolate

1. second-person singular voseo imperative of consolar combined with te