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Pious; devout. [Obs.] The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation. Wyclif.

Feeling or showing despite; malicious; angry to excess; cruel; contemptuous. [Obs.] "Despiteous reproaches." Holland.

Despitefully. [Obs.]

Full of despite; cruel; spiteful; pitiless. Spenser. -- Dis*pit"e*ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]

Pitiless; cruel. [Obs.]

Chief; eminent; greatest; principal. The most arch act of piteous massacre. Shak.

To utter loudly or repeatedly; to shout. Clamored their piteous prayer incessantly. Longfellow. To clamor bells, to repeat the strokes quickly so as to produce a loud clang. Bp. Warbur

Importunate supplication. O, the most piteous cry of the poor souls. Shak.

Despiteous; very angry; cruel. [Obs.] He was to sinful man not despitous. Chaucer. - De*spit"ous*ly, adv. [Obs.]

passive participle. With garments rent and hair disheveled, Wringing her hands and making piteous moan. Spenser.

manner; to titter with childish levity. Giggling and laughing with all their might At the piteous hap of the fairy wight. J. R. Drake.

Forwards; with one's face to the ground. [Obs.] They fellen gruf, and cryed piteously. Chaucer.

g, or offensive to the eyes; dreadful to behold; as, a hideous monster; hideous looks. "A piteous and hideous spectacle." Macaulay.

Languid; drooping.[Obs.] Who, piteous of her woes, reared her lank head. Milton. Lank hair, long, thin hair. Macaulay.

Dejected; sorrowful; downcast. [Obs.] "So piteous and so maat." Chaucer.

Cast down; dejected; overthrown; slain. [Obs.] When he saw them so piteous and so maat. Chaucer.

ng in grace; arduous, full of ardor; bulbous, having bulbs, bulblike; riotous, poisonous, piteous, joyous, etc.

Deserving pity; wworthy of, or exciting, compassion; miserable; lamentable; piteous; as, pitiable persons; a pitiable condition; pitiable wretchedness.

Piteous; lamentable; eliciting compassion. A thing, indeed, very pitiful and horrible. Spenser.

To lament; to bewail; to complain. [Archaic & Poetic] Milton. We with piteous heart unto you pleyne. Chaucer.