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▪ I. disˈprofit, n. Obs. or arch.
[f. dis- 9 + profit n.]
The opposite of profit; disadvantage, detriment.
1494Fabyan Chron. vii. 618 All was ruled by the quene & her counsayll, to the great disprofite of the kynge & his realme. 1596Dalrymple tr. Leslie's Hist. Scot. vi. 330 Weiris ar begun, with gret slauchtir on baith sydes, disproffet and skaith. 1620Markham Farew. Husb. ii. xxii. (1668) 120 You shall want their Company..which is both discomfort and disprofit. 1751Wesley Wks. (1872) XIV. 125 Adjectives signifying..disprofit..govern a Dative Case. 1837Carlyle Mirabeau Misc. (1872) V. 217 They fought much: with an eye to profit, to redress of disprofit.
†b. with a and pl. A disadvantage. Obs.
a1568Coverdale Bk. Death i. viii. Wks. II. 56 All the aforesaid disprofits and griefs do justly vanish. 1651Hobbes Govt. & Soc. x. §2. 149 All the profits and disprofits arising from government. 1671H. M. tr. Erasm. Colloq. 219 Lest I should get for my self any profit by others disprofits.
▪ II. disˈprofit, v. Obs. or arch.
[f. dis- 6 + profit v. (possibly from Fr.).]
1. trans. To bring disadvantage to; to injure, incommode, inconvenience.
1483Caxton Gold. Leg. 264/1 [He] commendyd hym to god prayeng that the pryson shold not disproufyte hym. 1532in W. H. Turner Select. Rec. Oxford 113 The Towne is not profited by them, but..disprofited. 1660tr. Paracelsus' Archidoxis ii. 110* That which is Innate doth neither profit, or disprofit any one. 1837Carlyle Fr. Rev. II. v. vii, Of the whole two thousand there are not now half a score..that will profit or disprofit us. 1850― Latter-d. Pamph. vii. (1872) 246.
†2. intr. (for refl.) To fail to profit; to receive disadvantage or injury. Obs.
1561T. Norton Calvin's Inst. iv. 88 He hath sene no worse menne than those that disprofited in monasteries.
Hence disˈprofited ppl. a., disˈprofiting vbl. n.
1599Minsheu, Desaprovechado, disprofited. 1632Sherwood, A disprofiting, Endommagement. |