Emily Dickinson Lexicon

COM-MIS'ER-ATE, v.t. [L. commiseror; con and misereor, to pity. See Miserable.]

1. To pity; to compassionate; to feel sorrow, pain or regret for another in distress; applied to persons. We should commiserate those who groan beneath the weight of age, disease or want. – Denham.
2. To regret; to pity; to be sorry for; as, to commiserate our mutual ignorance. – Locke.