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▪ I. † disˈclander, n. Obs.
Forms: 4–6 des-, dys-, discla(u)nder, -dre, -dir, -dyr, 5 disclandar, disklander, deslaundre, 5–6 disla(u)nder, -dre, dyssclaunder.
[a. AF. *desclandre, disclaunder (15th c.) deriv. of OF. escla-ndre, earlier escandre, escandle, escandele:—L. scandalum: see esclandre; cf. scandal and slander. The prefix des- in Anglo-Fr. was prob. due to some analogy, or to confusion of des- and es-.]
1. Malicious speech bringing opprobrium upon any one; slander.
c1300Beket 2073 Thu missaist foule thine owe louerd..Ho miȝte suffri such desclandre, bot he nome wrecche? 1471Arriv. Edw. IV (Camden) 21 The false, faynyd fables, and disclandars, that..were wont to be seditiously sowne and blowne abowt all the land. 1548Hall Chron., Hen. VI, 99 b, He declareth you a true man to hym.. the saied dislaunder and noysyng notwithstandyng. 1562in Stow's Surv. (1754) II. v. xxi. 411/2 If their offences be great..offending his master by theft or dislander or such like, then to command him to Newgate.
2. Reproach or reprobation called forth by what is considered shameful or wrong; public disgrace or opprobrium; scandal.
1362Langl. P. Pl. A. v. 75, I haue..Ablamed him behynde his bak to bringe him in disclaundre. c1374Chaucer Troylus iv. 536 (564) For yf I wolde it openly distourbe, It most ben disclaundre to here name. 1402Hoccleve Letter of Cupid 70 No worshippe may he thus to him conquere, but grete disclander vnto him and here! 1432–50tr. Higden (Rolls) V. 143 The disclaunder of your ylle disposicion scholde not be knowen amonge your enmyes. 1462J. Paston in Paston Lett. No. 439. II. 89 To deliver seison accordynge to the same feffement, to the gret disclaundre of the seid Sir John and all his. 1531–2Act 23 Hen. VIII, c. 1 [They] suffre them to make their purgacions..to the greatte disclaunder of suche as pursue suche misdoers.
▪ II. † disˈclander, v. Obs.
Forms: see prec.
[ME. desclandre, f. prec. n., perh. through an AF. *desclandre-r for OF. esclandrer to slander.]
1. trans. To speak evil of, so as to expose to opprobrium; to slander.
c1290Beket 1246 in S. Eng. Leg. I. 142 Þe bischopes comen bi-fore And desclaundreden seint thomas, þat he was fals and for-suore. c1380Wyclif Wks. (1880) 138 Þes proude..possessioners disclaundren trewe prechours. 14..E.E. Misc. (Warton Club) 63 Awyse the welle who syttys the by, Lest he wylle report thi talle, And dyssclaundure the after to gret and smalle. 1530Palsgr. 513/2, I desclaunder, I hurte or hynder ones good name by reporte.
2. To bring into public disgrace or opprobrium; to bring scandal upon.
c1385Chaucer L.G.W. 1031 Dido, We that weryn in prosperite Been now disclanderyd. c1430Lydg. Min. Poems (Percy Soc.) 143 Now as ye seen, for disobedience Disclaundrid is perpetually my name. a1483Liber Niger in Househ. Ord. (1790) 70 That the owner be not hurte, nor this famous courte disclaunderyd by any outerage of cravinge or crakyng. |