a. Obs. rare–1. ad. L. commiserānt-em, pr. pple. of commiserāri: see below.] Showing commiseration; full of pity.
c. 1606. MS. Tract, in Stubbes’ Anat. Abuses (1879), Introd. 79*. On the holye dayes, which our commiserant Lord ordayned in part for the reste of them, and all brutes.
