Obs. rare. [f. prec. sb.] intr. To have ‘sympathy’ or affinity; to agree in nature or qualities (with something).
1625. Breton, Charac., 19. It [sc. love] simpathies with life, and participates with light, when the eye of the minde sees the ioy of the heart.
a. 1634. Randolph, Muse’s Looking Glass, II. iii. Pleasures, that are not mans, as man is man, But as his nature sympathies with beasts.
