discommend

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English

Etymology

dis- +‎ commend.

Pronunciation

Verb

discommend (third-person singular simple present discommends, present participle discommending, simple past and past participle discommended)

  1. (now rare) To show disapproval of something, find fault with.
  2. (now rare) To speak dissuasively of, to advise against.
    • 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: , 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, →OCLC:
      , New York, 2001, p.218:
      Savonarola discommends goat's flesh, and so doth Bruerinus , calling it a filthy beast, and rammish .

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