a. [f. as COMMISERATE v. + -IVE.] Given to or showing commiseration: compassionate.
1612–5. Bp. Hall, Contempl. N. T., III. v. If thou wert thus commiserative upon earth, art thou lesse in heaven?
1614. Cornwallis, in Gutch, Coll. Cur., I. 165. As this commiserative Kingdom hath always given to aliens, in cases of trial in causes criminal.
a. 1876. M. Collins, Th. in Garden (1880), II. 249. The commiserative old lady filled his glass with more sherry.
Hence Commiseratively adv., with commiseration, pityingly.
a. 1613. Overbury, A Wife (1638), 81. Whose weaknes he assists no otherwise than commiseratively.
