discommend
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discommend (third-person singular simple present discommends, present participle discommending, simple past and past participle discommended)
- (now rare) To show disapproval of something, find fault with.
- (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 […].