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discommend, v.|dɪskəˈmɛnd|
[f. dis- 6 + commend: cf. OF. descommander (13th c. in Hatz.-Darm.).]
1. trans. To find fault with, express disapprobation of: the opposite of commend (sense 3).
1494Fabyan Chron. vi. clvi. 145 In hym was no thynge to be dyscommendyd, but that he helde his doughter so longe vnmaryed. 1509Barclay Shyp Folys (1570) 122, I shall..Lawde iust and good, and the euill discommende. 1557North tr. Gueuara's Diall of Princes 90 a/2, I do discommend, that the women should goe gadding a broade in visitacion. a1639W. Whately Prototypes i. iv. (1640) 31 The Lord bids men goe and learne of the Pismire, and discommends idlenesse. 1676Shadwell Virtuoso iv, I cannot abide the sight of her since she discommended thee, my dear. 1860Patmore Faithful for ever i. 49 Who else shall discommend her choice?
absol.1632Brome Novella iii. Wks. 1873 I. 136 It is the chapmans rule to discommend. 1737Stackhouse Hist. Bible (1767) IV. vii. iv. 519 The author neither commends nor discommends.
2. To speak of dissuasively; the opposite of recommend (cf. commend 2).
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe ii. vii. 23 The juyce of oranges eaten with Sugar in a hotte fever is not to be dyscommended. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. i. ii. ii. i, Savanarola discommends Goats flesh. 1879Macfarren Counterp. (ed. 2) iii. 7 Their use..is discommended to students.
3. To cause (anything) to be unfavourably viewed or received. ? Obs.
1579Lyly Euphues (Arb.) 131 The manners of the childe at the first are to be looked to that nothing discommend the minde. a1659Z. Bogan in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. xxiii. 1 Only private defects discommend a thing.
Hence discoˈmmended ppl. a.; discoˈmmending vbl. n. and ppl. a.; also discoˈmmender, one who discommends.
1544Bale Chron. Sir J. Oldcastell in Harl. Misc. (Malh.) I. 249 Wyth no small discommendings of some princes. 1586A. Day Eng. Secretary i. (1625) 128 To the intent hee may..be instructed in the vilenesse and discommended parts of the same. 1611Cotgr., Vitupereur, a dispraiser, discommender. 1678Dryden All for Love Pref., No part of a poem is worth our discommending, where the whole is insipid. 1702S. Parker tr. De Finibus 192 Having something in them Discommending and Unacceptable. 1755Johnson, Discommender, one that discommends; a dispraiser. |