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An extrinsic circumstance or accident which increases the guilt of a crime or the misery of a calamity.

Near. [R.] "It did not come anear." Coleridge. The measure of misery anear us. I. Taylor.

words or sentiments occurring in the same sentence; as, "The prodigal robs his heir; the miser robs himself." "He had covertly shot at Cromwell; he how openly aimed at the Queen."

. If all his errors and follies were articled against him, the man would seem vicious and miserable. Jer. Taylor.

Misery; Let now your bliss be turned into bale. Spenser.

uts, but now usually applied to a permanent structure or set of buildings. He lodged in a miserable hut or barrack, composed of dry branches and thatched with straw. Gibbon.

To elude, or evade by craft; to foil. [Obs.] When misery could beguile the tyrant's rage. Shak.

Suffering calamity; wretched; miserable. [Obs.] Ten thousands of calamitous persons. South.

Any great misfortune or cause of misery; -- generally applied to events or disasters which produce extensive evil, either to communities or individuals.

Made prisoner, especially in war; held in bondage or in confinement. A poor, miserable, captive thrall. Milton.

ank, or capacity; quality or conduct with respect to a certain office or duty; as, in the miserable character of a slave; in his character as a magistrate; her character as a daughter.

A selfish miser; an illiberal person; a niggard. Like to some rich churl hoarding up his pelf. Drayton.

A miser or mean person.

- In comparison of, In comparison with, as compared with; in proportion to. [Archaic] "So miserably unpeopled in comparison of what it once was." Addison. -- Comparison of hands (Law), a mode of proving or disproving the genuineness of a signature or writing by comparing it with another proved or admitted to be genuin…

nother; a sensation of sorrow excited by the distress or misfortunes of another; pity; commiseration. Womanly igenuity set to work by womanly compassion. Macaulay.

To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to sympathize with. Compassionates my pains, and pities me. Addison.

eof do compensate the heat of the day. Bacon. The pleasures of life do not compensate the miseries. Prior.

oin in a secret design. We find them complotting together, and contriving a new scence of miseries to the Trojans. Pope.

The act of consoling; the state of being consoled; allevation of misery or distress of mind; refreshment of spirit; comfort; that which consoles or comforts the spirit. Against such cruelties With inward consolations recompensed. Milton. Are the consolations of God small with thee Job xv. 11.

To share. [Obs.] For, of all miserias, I hold that chief Wretched to be, when none coparts our grief. Webster (1661).