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Webster 1913 Edition
Discommend
Disˊcom-mend′
,Verb.
T.
1.
To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.
[R.]
Spenser.
By commending something in him that is good, and
discommending
the same fault in others. Jer. Taylor.
2.
To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one.
A compliance will
discommend
me to Mr. Coventry. Pepys.
Webster 1828 Edition
Discommend
DISCOMMEND
,Verb.
T.
I do not discommend the lofty style in tragedy.
Definition 2024
discommend
discommend
English
Verb
discommend (third-person singular simple present discommends, present participle discommending, simple past and past participle discommended)
- (now rare) To show disapproval of something, find fault with.
- (now rare) To speak dissuasively of, to advise against.
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.218:
- Savonarola discommends goat's flesh, and so doth Bruerinus […], calling it a filthy beast, and rammish […].
- 1621, Robert Burton, The Anatomy of Melancholy, New York, 2001, p.218: