单词 | discommendation |
释义 | discommendationn. Now rare. 1. The action of discommending someone or something; disapproval, censure. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] dispraisingc1386 mislovinga1400 dispraise1509 discommendation1540 discommending1544 dyslogy1837 1540 R. Morison tr. J. L. Vives Introd. Wysedome (new ed.) sig. B Nor gyuynge disprayse to thinges worthy prayse, ne yet commending thinges worthy discommendation [L. vituperanda]. 1573 Abp. M. Parker Let. 15 June in Corr. (1853) (modernized text) 427 In whose discommendation..your honour once did write to me. 1597 N. Breton Wil of Wit f.26 Oh good sir, speake not so in discommendation of a Scholler. 1662 S. Fisher Bishop busied beside Businesse i. 90 The Bishop is so much the more liable to Discommendation himself. 1753 S. Richardson Hist. Sir Charles Grandison VI. lvi. 372 I had much rather have been in the company..than grubbing pens in my closet; and all to get nothing but discommendation. 1823 New Times 18 July Mr. Serjeant Onslow..expressed strong discommendation of the public-spirited gentleman. 1837 T. Carlyle in London & Westm. Rev. Jan. 410 Let him come, under what discommendation he might, into any circle of men. 1997 Arkansas Democrat-Gazette (Nexis) 7 Apr. 4 b A special Certificate of Discommendation goes to..the state's chief executive officer and ethics-basher, for..endorsing this outrage. 2. An instance of this; a statement, letter, etc., of disapproval. Also: that which invites disapproval. ΘΚΠ the mind > attention and judgement > contempt > disapproval > dispraise or discommendation > [noun] > instance of discommendation1571 dispraisea1586 1571 E. Grant tr. Plutarch President for Parentes sig. F.ijv Commendations and prayses stirre and invite them [sc. children] to honest things, and discommendations doth call them away..from filthie, dishonest, and vicious things. 1580 T. Lupton Siuqila 98 Truely the crab is a discommendation to the Peare tree that bare it. 1677 R. Gilpin Dæmonol. Sacra i. xvii. 149 That rebuke, Mary hath chosen the better part, is only a comparative discommendation. 1711 F. Bugg Quakers Infallibility Shaken Epist. to Rdr. p. ii Their [sc. Quakers'] Commendations always breed Suspicions, and their Discommendations Glory. 1781 M. J. Armstrong Hist. & Antiq. Norfolk IV. 157 The port bailiffs..received the commendations or discommendations of the said brotherhood. 1822 L. Hunt in Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. Dec. 179/1 [We] hereby present the critics..with our hearty discommendations. 1889 Shakespeariana Feb. 60 Its cheapness, 8s. 6d., is its chief discommendation. 2001 Daily Herald (Chicago) 21 (Neighbour section) 1/6 The redesigned center..received a discommendation from the city Plan Commission. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < n.1540 |
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