desolate, desolat, dis solate

& 8. [Lat. desolatus, pa. par. of desolo to make lonely or desolate: de (intens.), and solo to make lonely; solus =alone.] A. As adjective : 1. Deprived of or without inhabitants; uninhabited, deserted. "What a forest of masts would have bristled in the deso late port of Newry."- Macaulay: Hist. Eng., ch. xvi. 2. Laid waste, ruined. "Every rew me departed agens itself schal be desolat . " -Wycliffe: Luke xi. *3. Destitute, unprovided. "I were right now of tales desolat ." Chaucer: C. Т. , 4,551. 4. Solitary, forsaken, forlorn. "Here to be lonely is not desolate , For much I view which I could most desire." 5. Afflicted, comfortle . Byron: Epistle to August a . "The heart once left thus desolate Must fly at last for ease-to hate." Byron: The Giaour. *B As subst.: One who is forsaken, afflicted, or comfortle . "A poor desolate That now had measured many a weary mile." G. Fletcher: Christ's Victorie , ii. 1. For the difference between desolate and solitary , see SOLITARY. děs-o-lāte, v. t. [In Fr. désoler; Ital. desolare; Sp. des solar, from Lat. desolo.] [DESOLATE, a.] 1. To deprive of inhabitants; to lay waste; to reduce to solitude or drearine ; to make into a wilderne or desert. "Pray to that God who, high on Ida's brow, Surveys thy desolated realms below." Pope: Homer's Iliad , xxiv. 359, 360. 2. To ruin; to reduce to a state of ruin. "Who curse the hour your Arabs came To desolate our shrines of flame." Moore: The Fire Worshipers. děs'-o-lat-ed, pa . par . or a. [DESOLATE, v .] děs-o-late-lỹ, adv . [Eng. desolate ; -ly.] In a desolate, forsaken, or deserted manner. "I have been kept a great while from you desolately alone."- Fox : Book of Martyrs , p. 1,900.