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English
Etymology
From dis- + custom.
Verb
discustom (third-person singular simple present discustoms, present participle discustoming, simple past and past participle discustomed)
- (rare) Obsolete form of disaccustom.
1618, John Buckeridge, A Sermon Preached before His Maieſty At Whitehall, March 22. 1617., London: Iohn Bill, page 161:[…] I ſhould haue thoght it had bin quite diſcuſtomed;long before Anſelme, but that it was held in life by ſome after Councels: […]
1671, “Of the Cauſe of Inward Trouble, and how a Chriſtian ſhould behave himſelf when Inward and Outward Troubles meet”, in Samuel Annesley, compiler, The Morning-Exercise at Cripple-Gate, 3rd edition, London: T. Milbourn, page 357:World to live upon, and content our ſelves with: to live upon God, and make him our content and ſtay, as if we had no other life nor livelyhood but in him; we are very apt in ſuch a caſe to contract a carnal frame, let go our hold of God, diſcuſtom our ſelves to the exerciſe of Faith, abate and eſtrange our affections from God.