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ness; extreme pain of body or mind; wretchedness; distress; woe. Chaucer. Destruction and misery are in their ways. Rom. iii. 16.

Want of esteem; disrespect. Johnson.

To estimate erroneously. J. S. Mill.

An erroneous explanation.

Wrong explication.

Wrong exposition.

To expound erroneously.

Wrong expression.

A shift, or undergarment, worn by women.

An under-garment, worn by women, usually covering the neck, shoulders, and breast.

Pitiable. [Obs.] Bacon.

; to pity. Then must we those, who groan, beneath the weight Of age, disease, or want, commiserate. Denham. We should commiserate our mutual ignorance. Locke.

The act of commiserating; sorrow for the wants, afflictions, or distresses of another; pity; compassion. And pluck commiseration of his state From brassy bosoms and rough hearts of flint. Shak.

Feeling or expressing commiseration. Todd.

One who pities.

nt of extreme demands or rights, resulting in an agreement. But basely yielded upon compromise That which his noble ancestors achieved with blows. Shak. All government, indeed every human benefit and enjoyment, every virtue and every prudent act, is founded on compromise and barter. Burke. An abhorrence of concession a…

One who compromises.

a royal or princely person; hence, also, the death of any illustrious person. After the demise of the Queen [of George II.], in 1737, they [drawing-rooms] were held but twice a week. P. Cunningham.

A short note, equal in time to the half of a semiquaver, or the thirty-second part of a whole note.

Mediation. [Obs.]