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page View Scan · View Transcription · from page 467 To Contrístate . v.a. [contristo, Latin.] To sadden; to make sorrowful; to make melancholy. Blackness and darkness are but privatives, and therefore have little or no activity: somewhat they do contristate, but very little. Bacon's Natural History, № 73. page

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