Discommend

Word DISCOMMEND
Character 10
Hyphenation dis com mend
Pronunciations N/A

Definitions and meanings of "Discommend"

What do we mean by discommend?

To show or voice disapproval of. transitive verb

To cause to come into disfavor or ill regard. transitive verb

To express or give occasion for disapprobation of; hold up or expose to censure or dislike: the opposite of recommend.

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. transitive verb

To show disapproval of something, find fault with. verb

To speak dissuasively of, to advise against. verb

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Synonyms and Antonyms for Discommend

The word "discommend" in example sentences

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

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. ❋ Unknown (2007)

Rhasis and [1360] Magninus discommend all fish, and say, they breed viscosities, slimy nutriment, little and humorous nourishment. ❋ Unknown (2007)

To withstand the beginnings, avoid occasions, fair and foul means, change of place, contrary passion, witty inventions, discommend the former, bring in another, Subs. ❋ Unknown (2007)

To go out of my dialect, which you discommend so much. ❋ Unknown (2004)

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 ❋ Unknown (2004)

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. ❋ Unknown (2003)

Yet I would not have you to beleeve, tho I so much discommend it, that it is no waies usefully profitable. ❋ A. Marsh (N/A)

I am not prone to recommend restaurants, or to discommend them, for the simple reason that, if they have proved bad, I smile to think of other men being poisoned and robbed as well as myself; as to the good ones -- why, only a fool would reveal their whereabouts. ❋ Norman Douglas (1910)

"I owe you an apology (I sincerely hope) for the circumstances of this visit, as I certainly discommend Mr. Rogers's method of introducing us." ❋ Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch (1903)

The company a word has kept, its history, faculties, and predilections, endear or discommend it to his instinct. ❋ Walter Alexander Raleigh (1891)

There is, I suppose, hardly a book which one ought to discommend to the young person more than _La Religieuse_. ❋ George Saintsbury (1889)

Seldom discommend anything though never so bad, or doe it but moderately, lest you bee unexpectedly forced to an unhansom retraction. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

It is safer to commend any thing more than is due, than to discommend a thing soe much as it deserves; for commendations meet not soe often with oppositions, or, at least, are not usually soe ill resented by men that think otherwise, as discommendations; and you will insinuate into men's favour by nothing sooner than seeming to approve and commend what they like; but beware of doing it by a comparison. ❋ Elbert Hubbard (1885)

'To go out of my dialect, _which you discommend so much_. ❋ Delia Bacon (1835)

And were there nothing else in sin but the discomposing and ruffling of that serene quiet, and undisturbed frame of spirit, which naturally attends a true and steady virtue, it were enough to endear the one, and to discommend the other. ❋ 1634-1716 (1823)

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