Obs. Also con-. [a. OF. confortacion, ad. late L. confortātiōn-em, n. of action f. confortāre to COMFORT: see -ATION.]
1. Comforting; comfort, delight.
a. 1400. Cov. Myst. (Shaks. Soc.), I. 114. To alle these creatures comfortacion.
1483. Caxton, Gold. Leg., 214/3. To confortacyon of the Spyrite.
c. 1485. Digby Myst. (1882), III. 338. I haue comfortat ywys to my comfortacyon.
2. Strengthening (of bodily organs or faculties).
1543. Traheron, Vigo’s Chirurg., II. xix. 33. For the comfortation of the hert.
1626. Bacon, Sylva, § 962. For Corroboration and Confortation take such Bodies as are of Astringent Quality.
3. Supporting or countenancing.
1552. in Strype, Eccl. Mem., II. II. xxx. 505. Confederacies, conspiracies … abbettings, procurations, comfortations.
