Dictionary entry

Compassionate (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Com‐pas″sion‐ate (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Compassionated (#); p. pr. & vb. n.Compassionating (#).] To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with.

Compassionates my pains, and pities me.

Addison.