CONDOLE, verb intransitive [Latin , to ache, or to grieve.] To feel pain, or to grieve, at the distress or misfortunes of another. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. It is followed by with before the person for whom we feel grief. CONDOLE, verb transitive To lament or bewail with another, or on account of anothers misfortune. [Unusual.] Why should our poet petition Isis for her safe delivery, and afterwards condole her miscarriage?
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