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.
- 1621, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy, Oxford: Printed by Iohn Lichfield and Iames Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 216894069; The Anatomy of Melancholy, 2nd corrected and augmented edition, Oxford: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, 1624, OCLC 54573970, (please specify |partition=1, 2, or 3):, New York, 2001, p.218:
- Savonarola discommends goat's flesh, and so doth Bruerinus […], calling it a filthy beast, and rammish […].