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disˈcomfis, -fish, v. Sc.
Forms: pa. pple. and pa. tense 5 discumfyst, 6 -fist, -feist, -comfeist, -fest, -confeist, 9 discomfisht.
[A by-form of discomfit v., a. OF. desconfis- present stem of desconfire (pr. pple. desconfisant, pr. subj. -confise). In early use chiefly in pa. pple. and pa. tense discumfist (cf. F. pret. il desconfist); modern present tense discomfish, also scomfish.]
= discomfit v.
c1470Henry Wallace i. 429 Ane that has discumfyst ws all. 1536Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. xxvii, Discumfist be thair ennimes. 1549Compl. Scot. ix. 77 Gedeon, vitht thre hundretht men, discumfeist ane hundretht and tuenty thousant. 1553Douglas' æneis x. xiv. 24 Ane man was brocht to ground And discomfest [MS. discumfyt] wyth sa grislie ane wound. 1570Tragedie 264 in Satir. Poems Reform. (1890) 90 Bot we the Langsyde hill befoir thame wan, And..disconfeist thame. 1825–80Jamieson, Discomfisht, overcome. 1894Liberal 1 Dec. 72/1 Ye're a puir feckless fushionless discomfisht body. |