dishumour

English

Alternative forms

• dishumor

Etymology

dis- +‎ humour

Verb

dishumour (third-person singular simple present dishumours, present participle dishumouring, simple past and past participle dishumoured)

1. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of humour or desire; to put out of humour.
   • 1599 (first performance; published 1600), Beniamin Ionson [i.e., Ben Jonson], “Euery Man out of His Humour. A Comicall Satyre. […]”, in The Workes of Beniamin Ionson (First Folio), London: […] Will[iam] Stansby, published 1616, →OCLC, (please specify the act number in uppercase Roman numerals, and the scene number in lowercase Roman numerals):

     O, how I do feed upon this now, and fat my self! here were a couple unexpectedly dishumour'd

Noun

dishumour (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) ill humour; bad temper

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dishumour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)