a. Opposite to the sun; -- said of the point in the heavens 180° distant from the sun. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consolabilis: cf. F. consolable. ] Capable of receiving consolation. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ L. consolatus, p. p. See Console, v. t. ] To console; to comfort. [ Obs. ] Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. consolatio: cf. F. consolation. ] 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. [ 1913 Webster ]

Against such cruelties
With inward consolations recompensed. Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

Are the consolations of God small with thee? Job xv. 11.

Syn. -- Comfort; solace; allevation. See Comfort. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖ [ It., the consulate of the sea. ] A collection of maritime laws of disputed origin, supposed to have been first published at Barcelona early in the 14th century. It has formed the basis of most of the subsequent collections of maritime laws. Kent. Bouvier. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] One who consoles or comforts. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. consolatorius. ] Of a consoling or comforting nature. [ 1913 Webster ]

The punishment of tyrants is a noble and awful act of justice; and it has with truth been said to be consolatory to the human mind. Burke. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. That which consoles; a speech or writing intended for consolation. [ R. ] Milton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ L. desolatus, p. p. of desolare to leave alone, forsake; de- + solare to make lonely, solus alone. See Sole, a. ] 1. Destitute or deprived of inhabitants; deserted; uninhabited; hence, gloomy; as, a desolate isle; a desolate wilderness; a desolate house. [ 1913 Webster ]

I will make Jerusalem . . . a den of dragons, and I will make the cities of Judah desolate, without an inhabitant. Jer. ix. 11. [ 1913 Webster ]

And the silvery marish flowers that throng
The desolate creeks and pools among. Tennyson. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Laid waste; in a ruinous condition; neglected; destroyed; as, desolate altars. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. Left alone; forsaken; lonely; comfortless. [ 1913 Webster ]

Have mercy upon, for I am desolate. Ps. xxv. 16. [ 1913 Webster ]

Voice of the poor and desolate. Keble. [ 1913 Webster ]

4. Lost to shame; dissolute. [ Obs. ] Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

5. Destitute of; lacking in. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

I were right now of tales desolate. Chaucer.

Syn. -- Desert; uninhabited; lonely; waste. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Desolated; p. pr. & vb. n. Desolating. ] 1. To make desolate; to leave alone; to deprive of inhabitants; as, the earth was nearly desolated by the flood. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To lay waste; to ruin; to ravage; as, a fire desolates a city. [ 1913 Webster ]

Constructed in the very heart of a desolating war. Sparks. [ 1913 Webster ]

adj. reduced to a barren and lifeless state.
Syn. -- blasted, desolate, devastated, ravaged, ruined, wasted. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

adv. In a desolate manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being desolate. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. One who, or that which, desolates or lays waste. Mede. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ F. désolation, L. desolatio. ] 1. The act of desolating or laying waste; destruction of inhabitants; depopulation. [ 1913 Webster ]

Unto the end of the war desolations are determined. Dan. ix. 26. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. The state of being desolated or laid waste; ruin; solitariness; destitution; gloominess. [ 1913 Webster ]

You would have sold your king to slaughter, . . .
And his whole kingdom into desolation. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. A place or country wasted and forsaken. [ 1913 Webster ]

How is Babylon become a desolation! Jer. l. 23.

Syn. -- Waste; ruin; destruction; havoc; devastation; ravage; sadness; destitution; melancholy; gloom; gloominess. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. ] Same as Desolater. Byron. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. desolatorius. ] Causing desolation. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The state of being disconsolate. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Disconsolateness. [ Obs. ] Barrow. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ LL. disconsolatus; L. dis- + consolatus, p. p. of consolari to console. See Console, v. t. ] 1. Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent. [ 1913 Webster ]

One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood disconsolate. Moore. [ 1913 Webster ]

The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh,
Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. Ray.

Syn. -- Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy.

-- Dis*con"so*late*ly, adv. -- Dis*con"so*late*ness, n. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. Disconsolate. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

A poor, disconsolated, drooping creature. Sterne. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. Dejection; grief. [ R. ] Bp. Hall. [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖ } n. [ NL., fr. Gr. &unr_; tongue + &unr_; talk: cf. F. glossolalie. ] The gift of tongues. Farrar. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. inconsolabilis: cf. F. inconsolable. See In- not, and Console. ] Not consolable; incapable of being consoled; grieved beyond susceptibility of comfort; disconsolate. Dryden. [ 1913 Webster ]

With inconsolable distress she griev'd,
And from her cheek the rose of beauty fled. Falconer.

-- In`con*sol"a*ble*ness, n. -- In`con*sol"a*bly, adv.

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Insolated p. pr. & vb. n. Insolating. ] [ L. insolatus, p. p. of insolare to expose to the sun; pref. in- in + sol the sun. ] To dry in, or to expose to, the sun's rays; to ripen or prepare by such exposure. Johnson. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. insolatio: cf. F. insolation. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. The act or process to exposing to the rays of the sun for the purpose of drying or maturing, as fruits, drugs, etc., or of rendering acid, as vinegar. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Med.) (a) A sunstroke. (b) Exposure of a patient to the sun's rays; a sun bath. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Meteorology) The amount of sunlight impinging on the Earth's surface. [ PJC ]

a. [ See Isolate. ] (Chem.) Capable of being isolated, or of being obtained in a pure state; as, gold is isolable. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Isolated p. pr. & vb. n. Isolating ] [ It. isolato, p. p. of isolare to isolate, fr. isola island, L. insula. See 2d Isle, and cf. Insulate. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

1. To place in a detached situation; to place by itself or alone; to insulate; to separate from others; as, to isolate an infected person from others; to isolate the troublemakers in a classroom. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

Short isolated sentences were the mode in which ancient wisdom delighted to convey its precepts. Bp. Warburton. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. (Elec.) To insulate. See Insulate. [ 1913 Webster ]

3. (Chem.) To separate (a substance) from all foreign substances; to make pure; to obtain in a free state; as, to isolate the desired product from a reaction mixture. [ 1913 Webster +PJC ]

4. (Microbiol.) To obtain a culture of a microorganism in pure form (from a complex mixture); as, to isolate Eschericia coli from a patient's blood. [ PJC ]

n. Something that has been isolated; as, an isolate of a powerful antibiotic from a tropical plant; an isolate of tuberculosis bacillus from an infected patient. [ PJC ]

a. Placed or standing alone; detached; separated from others. [ 1913 Webster ]

Isolated point of a curve. (Geom.) See Acnode. [ 1913 Webster ]

adv. In an isolated manner. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. isolation. ] The act of isolating, or the state of being isolated; insulation; separation; loneliness. Milman. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Cf. F. isolation. ] The doctrine or policy of minimal participation by one's country in international economic and political relations, specifically by not entering into alliances or other international agreements, in order to avoid becoming entangled in foreign wars, and to be able to devote the nation's energies primarily to advancing its own domestic interests. [ PJC ]

n. A proponent or supporter of isolationism; one who is isolationistic. [ PJC ]

adj. 1. of or pertaining to isolationism.
Syn. -- isolationist. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

2. Favoring or supporting isolationism; -- of people. [ PJC ]

n. One who, or that which, isolates. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ L. luna moon + E. solar: cf. F. lunisolaire. ] Resulting from the united action, or pertaining to the mutual relations, of the sun and moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

Lunisolar precession (Astron.), that portion of the annual precession of the equinoxes which depends on the joint action of the sun and moon. --
Lunisolar year, a period of time, at the end of which, in the Julian calendar, the new and full moons and the eclipses recur on the same days of the week and month and year as in the previous period. It consists of 532 common years, being the least common multiple of the numbers of years in the cycle of the sun and the cycle of the moon. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ L. mesolabium, Gr. &unr_;; me`sos middle + &unr_; to take. ] An instrument of the ancients for finding two mean proportionals between two given lines, required in solving the problem of the duplication of the cube. Brande & C. [ 1913 Webster ]

a. [ Naso- + lachrymal. ] (Anat.) Connected with the lachrymal apparatus and the nose; as, the nasolachrymal, or lachrymal duct. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. (chemistry) To isolate{ 3 } (a substance) beforehand. [ WordNet 1.5 ]

{ etc. } A game, match, etc., open only to losers in early stages of contests. [ Webster 1913 Suppl. ]

v. t. To console or comfort again. [ Obs. ] Sir H. Wotton. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖n. [ NL., fr. L. salsus salt, because they contain alkaline salts. ] (Bot.) A genus of plants including the glasswort. See Glasswort. [ 1913 Webster ]

‖a. [ L., fem. of solus. ] See Solus. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ Native name. ] (Bot.) A leguminous plant (Aeschynomene aspera) growing in moist places in Southern India and the East Indies. Its pithlike stem is used for making hats, swimming-jackets, etc. [ Written also solah, shola. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

{ ‖masc. a., fem. a. } [ L. ] Alone; -- chiefly used in stage directions, and the like. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. [ OF. solas, ssoulaz, L. solacium, solatium, fr. solari to comfort, console. Cf. Console, v. t. ] 1. Comfort in grief; alleviation of grief or anxiety; also, that which relieves in distress; that which cheers or consoles; relief. [ 1913 Webster ]

In business of mirth and of solace. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

The proper solaces of age are not music and compliments, but wisdom and devotion. Rambler. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. Rest; relaxation; ease. [ Obs. ] [ 1913 Webster ]

To make his steed some solace. Chaucer. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- Comfort; consolation; alleviation; relief. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. t. [ imp. & p. p. Solaced p. pr. & vb. n. Solacing ] [ OF. solacier, soulacier, F. solacier, LL. solatiare. See Solace, n. ] 1. To cheer in grief or under calamity; to comfort; to relieve in affliction, solitude, or discomfort; to console; -- applied to persons; as, to solace one with the hope of future reward. [ 1913 Webster ]

2. To allay; to assuage; to soothe; as, to solace grief. [ 1913 Webster ]

Syn. -- To comfort; assuage; allay. See Comfort. [ 1913 Webster ]

v. i. To take comfort; to be cheered. Shak. [ 1913 Webster ]

n. The act of solacing, or the state of being solaced; also, that which solaces. [ R. ] [ 1913 Webster ]