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discommendable, a.|dɪskəˈmɛndəb(ə)l|
[f. prec. + -able.]
1. To be discommended; worthy of censure.
1527Andrew Brunswyke's Distyll. Waters Prol., It is not dyscomendable for a man of more base lernynge to put to his helping hande. 1583Stubbes Anat. Abuses i. To Rdr. p. xii, It is an exercise altogether discommendable and vnlawfull. 1650Bulwer Anthropomet. 201 Splendid apparel, counterfeit crisped haire is more discommendable then the nakednesse of these Barbarians. 1711W. King tr. Naude's Ref. Politics ii. 62 An act very discommendable and shameful. 1737Stackhouse Hist. Bible (1767) IV. vii. iv. 517 The motives..are not discommendable. 1833Lamb Elia Ser. ii. Poor Rel., In a vein of no discommendable vanity.
†2. Not to be recommended; to be represented dissuasively. Obs.
1533Elyot Cast. Helthe ii. xiii. (1539) 31 b, To them, whiche use moche exercise, it is not discommendable. 1655Moufet & Bennet Health's Improv. (1746) 329 Rice is..discommendable only in that it is over-binding. 1684tr. Bonet's Merc. Compit. xviii. 644 The eating of Flesh is not discommendable, especially of Animals.
Hence † discoˈmmendableness; † discoˈmmendably adv. Obs.
1656W. D. tr. Comenius' Gate Lat. Unl. §663 Those that do discommendably, reprove, rebuke, slight them. 1727Bailey vol. II, Discommendableness, undeservingness of commendation. |