資料來源 : Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary (1913)

Compassionate \Com*pas"sion*ate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Compassionated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Compassionating}.]
   To have compassion for; to pity; to commiserate; to
   sympathize with.

         Compassionates my pains, and pities me.  --Addison.