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An open space where several roads or paths meet; esp. an open space in a park where several roads meet.

The state of being condemned. His pathetic appeal to posterity in the hopeless hour of condemnation. W. Irving.

To express sympathetic sorrow; to grieve in sympathy; -- followed by with. Your friends would have cause to rejoice, rather than condole with you. Sir W. Temple.

Expression of sympathy with another in sorrow or grief. Their congratulations and their condolences. Steele. A special mission of condolence. Macaulay.

Partaking of the same nature; allied by natural characteristics; kindred; sympathetic.

To address with expressions of sympathetic pleasure on account of some happy event affecting the person addressed; to wish joy to. It is the king's most sweet pleasure and affection to congratulate the princess at her pavilion. Shak. To congratulate one's self, to rejoice; to feel satisfaction; to consider one's self h…

The act of congratulating; an expression of sympathetic pleasure. With infinite congratulations for our safe arrival. Dr. J. Scott.

Expressive of sympathetic joy; as, a congratulatory letter.

Excited or caused by sensation, sympathy, or reflex action, and not by conscious volition; as, consensual motions. Consensual contract (Law), a contract formed merely by consent, as a marriage contract.

Sympathy. See Sympathy, 4.

Thoughtful or sympathetic regard or notice. Consideration for the poor is a doctrine of the church. Newman.

ertain Jews made a conspiration. Udall. In our natural body every part has a nacassary sympathy with every other, and all together form, by their harmonious onspiration, a healthy whole. Sir W. Hamilton.

A thing that is of contrary or opposite qualities. No contraries hold more antipathy Than I and such a knave. Shak.

Manifesting coldness or dislike; chilling; apathetic; as, a cool manner.

A nickname applied to a person in the Northern States who sympathized with the South during the Civil War. [U.S.]

To draw aside from the path of rectitude and duty; as, to corrupt a judge by a bribe. Heaven is above all yet; there sits a Judge That no king can corrupt. Shak.

marked by opposition or antipathy to revolution; as, ostracized for his counterrevolutionary tendencies. Opposite of revolutionary. [WordNet 1.5]

THe ground or path traversed; track; way. The same horse also run the round course at Newmarket. Pennant.

To invite by attractions; to allure; to attract. A well-worn pathway courted us To one green wicket in a privet hedge. Tennyson.

To bend, turn, or wind. Along the crankling path. Drayton.