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discommode, v.|dɪskəˈməʊd|
[f. dis- 6 + commode v., after obs. F. discommoder; see prec.]
trans. To put to inconvenience or trouble; to incommode, inconvenience.
1721Bailey, Discommode, to incommode. 1753L. M. tr. Du Boscq's Accomplish'd Woman II. 127 For fear of discommoding his curls. 1818Scott Hrt. Midl. l, It could not discommode you to receive any of his Grace's visiters or mine. 1830Galt Lawrie T. iii. i. (1849) 84 Finding herself and the younger children discommoded in the boat. 1885Child Ballads iii. lxxviii. 235/2 The hero comes out of his mound..to tell her how she discommodes him..every [tear] drop pierces, cold and bloody, to his breast.
Hence discoˈmmoded ppl. a., inconvenienced.
1828in Webster. 1880Daily Tel. 30 Apr., Half-smothered ejaculations of discommoded men. |