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discoˈmmodious, a.
[f. dis- 10 + commodious.]
a. Causing trouble or inconvenience; inconvenient; disadvantageous, troublesome.
1540Act 32 Hen. VIII, c. 44 The..distaunce of the towne from the parishe churches..is veraie discommodious. 1577B. Googe Heresbach's Husb. iv. (1586) 179 b, The fixed, or standing Hives, bee discommodious, as which you can neither sell, nor remoove. 1601R. Johnson Kingd. & Commw. (1603) 141 So discommodious is gluttonie to the proceedings of the Christians. 1645Milton Tetrach. (1851) 154 A mariage..totally discommodious, distastfull, dishonest and pernicious to him. 1668Wilkins Real Char. 29. 1897 Blackw. Mag. Nov. 593/2 [A fashion] discommodious for warm weather. 1928Ibid. Feb. 160/2 Confound and blister that blasted German and all his damned discommodious works.
b. as n. = Discommodious quality. rare.
1583B. Googe Let. in N. & Q. Ser. iii. III. 242, I can verry well away wyth the dyscomodious off the contrey. |