Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- transitive verb To show or voice disapproval of.
- transitive verb To cause to come into disfavor or ill regard.
from The Century Dictionary.
- To express or give occasion for disapprobation of; hold up or expose to censure or dislike: the opposite of
recommend .
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- transitive verb rare To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove.
- transitive verb To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- verb To show
disapproval of something, find fault with. - verb To speak dissuasively of, to advise against.
Etymologies
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Examples
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Some discommend moated houses, as unwholesome; so Camden saith of [3155] Ew-elme, that it was therefore unfrequented, ob stagni vicini halitus, and all such places as be near lakes or rivers.
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Rhasis and [1360] Magninus discommend all fish, and say, they breed viscosities, slimy nutriment, little and humorous nourishment.
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Withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, change his place: fair and foul means, contrary passions, with witty inventions: to bring in another, and discommend the former.
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Withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, change his place: fair and foul means, contrary passions, with witty inventions: to bring in another, and discommend the former.
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Withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, change his place: fair and foul means, contrary passions, with witty inventions: to bring in another, and discommend the former.
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To withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, fair and foul means, change of place, contrary passion, witty inventions, discommend the former, bring in another, Subs.
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To go out of my dialect, which you discommend so much.
King Lear 2004
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For those who suppose a bad cause for laudable works and commendable actions, endeavoring by calumnies to insinuate sinister suspicions of the actor when they cannot openly discommend the act, — as they that impute the killing of
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For they mean a contriving of directions and precepts for readiness of practice, which I discommend not, so it be not occasion that some quantity of the science be lost; for else it will be such a piece of husbandry as to put away a manor lying somewhat scattered, to buy in a close that lieth handsomely about a dwelling.
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Yet I would not have you to beleeve, tho I so much discommend it, that it is no waies usefully profitable.
The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple A. Marsh
yarb commented on the word discommend
Were it decent to lay my finger on anything unbecoming in my master, I should discommend his starchness. Instead of exercising forbearance towards frail churchmen, he visits every peccadillo, as if it were a heinous offence.
- Lesage, The Adventures of Gil Blas of Santillane, tr. Smollett, bk 7 ch. 2
September 20, 2008