discounter (diskounter)

One who discounts; specifically, one who buys mercantile paper at a discount. In order to gorge the whole gang of usurers, pedlars, and itinerant Jew- discounters at the corners of streets, [have they not] starved the poor of their Christian flocks, and their own brother pastors? Burke, To a Member of the National A embly. discourage (dis-kur'āj), v.; pret, and pp. dis couraged, ppr. discouraging. [ Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged . Col. iii. 21. When we begin to seek God in earnest, we are apt, not only to be humbled (which we ought to be), but to be dis couraged at the slowne with which we are able to amend, in spite of all the a istances of God's grace. J. H. Newman , Parochial Sermons, i. 232. 2. To le en or repre courage for; obstruct by opposition or difficulty; di uade or hinder from: as, to discourage emigration; ill succe discourages effort; low prices discourage industry. In our return, when I staid some time ashore, the boatmen cut down a tree; some labourers near spoke to them not to do it, and I likewise discourag'd it. Pococke , Description of the East, I. 114. The apostle... discourages too unreasonable a presumption. Rogers. If revelation speaks on the subject of the origin of evil, it speaks only to discourage dogmatism and temerity. Macaulay , Sadler's Ref. Refuted. II.t in trans. To lose courage. Because that poore Churche shulde not utterly discou rage , in her extreme adversities, the Sonne of God hath taken her to His spowse. Vocacyon of Johan Bale , 1553 (Harl. Misc., VI. 464). disc our a get (dis-kur'āj), n. [ discourage , v .] Want of courage, cowardice. There undoubtedly is grievous discourage and peril of conscience; forasmuch as they omit oftentimes their duties and offices. Sir T. Elyot , The Govern our, fol. 209.