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To express or to feel grief or sorrow; to grieve; to be sorrowful; to lament; to be in a state of grief or sadness. Abraham came to mourn for Sarah, and to weep for her. Gen. xxiii. 2.

Suffering; sorrowful. [Obs.] Shak.

One who repents of sin; one sorrowful on account of his transgressions.

th; dominion; as, foreign possessions. When the young man heard that saying, he went away sorrowful, for he had great possessions. Matt. xix. 22. Ananias, with Sapphira his wife, sold a possession. Acts v. 1. The house of Jacob shall possess their possessions. Ob. 17.

Causing one to rue or lament; woeful; mournful; sorrowful.

To make sorrowful; to sadden. [Obs.] How it sadded the minister's spirits! H. Peters.

To make grave or serious; to make melancholy or sorrowful. Her gloomy presence saddens all the scene. Pope.

Grievously; deeply; sorrowfully; miserably. "He sadly suffers in their grief." Dryden.

Quality of being sad, or unhappy; gloominess; sorrowfulness; dejection. Dim sadness did not spare That time celestial visages. Milton.

Sorrowful; mournful. [R.] "Sigh-born thoughts." De Quincey.

Any sorrowful cry or sound. The tremulous sob of the complaining owl. Wordsworth.

Accompanied with sorrow; sorrowful. [Obs.] Shak.

Sorrowful. [Obs.] Chaucer.

Pertaining to a threne; sorrowful; mournful.

Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. [Obs.] Fairfax.

Sad; sorrowful; gloomy. Shak. Eyes so tristful, eyes so tristful, Heart so full of care and cumber. Longfellow.

In a degree miserable or wretched; not happy; sad; sorrowful; as, children render their parents unhappy by misconduct.

Sorrowful; mournful. " Like wailful widows." Spenser. "Wailful sonnets." Shak.

Woeful; sorrowful. [Obs.] His clerk was woe to do that deed. Robert of Brunne. Woe was this knight and sorrowfully he sighed. Chaucer. And looking up he waxed wondrous woe. Spenser.

Full of woe; sorrowful; distressed with grief or calamity; afflicted; wretched; unhappy; sad. How many woeful widows left to bow To sad disgrace! Daniel.