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disˈcredited, ppl. a.
[f. discredit v. + -ed.]
Brought into discredit or disrepute; that has lost credit.
1611Cotgr., Deshonoré, dishonoured, discredited, disgraced. 1622Malynes Anc. Law-Merch. 113 If the Factor do sell another mans commoditie to a man discredited..and it falleth out that this man breaketh [etc.]. 1674Boyle Excell. Theol. ii. v. 203 Obsolete errours are sometimes revived as well as discredited Truths. 1790Burke Fr. Rev. Wks. V. 88 The discredited paper securities of impoverished fraud. 1887Spectator 29 Oct. 1456 Natural theology, he says, has become a discredited science. |