Pit"e*ous (?), a. [OE. pitous, OF. pitos, F. piteux. See Pity.] 1.
Pious; devout. [Obs.]
The Lord can deliver piteous men from temptation.
Wyclif.
2. Evincing pity, compassion, or sympathy; compassionate; tender.
"[She] piteous of his case." Pope.
She was so charitable and so pitous.
Chaucer.
3. Fitted to excite pity or sympathy; wretched; miserable; lamentable;
sad; as, a piteous case. Spenser.
The most piteous tale of Lear.
Shak.