Definition of "sympathise" [sympathise]

• Alternative spelling of sympathize. (verb)

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• "A Giaour that comes for reasons with which all can sympathise is a man and a brother."
• "To understand is not the same as to sympathise, that is why they are 2 different words: they have two different meanings."
• "Indeed, when we converse with a man with whom we can entirely sympathise, that is when there is a warm and intimate friendship, the cordial openness of such a commerce overbears the pain of a disagreeable sympathy, and renders the whole movement agreeable, but in ordinary cases this cannot have place."