discomfort (diskumfert)

t. [ = Pg. des con for tar IMG:content-2763.png:[ocr errors] fortar, descofortar disc on fort are, sconfortare, discomfort, Cecropia came unto them, making courtesy the out for they were in a place dedicated to their service. side of mischief, and desiring them not to be discomforted; Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. So Biörn went comfortle but for his thought, And by his thought the more discomforted . Lowell, Voyage to Vinland. discomfort (dis-kum'fèrt), n. [ discom- fort , disc on fort , des con for to = It. disc on for to , sconforto, discomfort; from the verb.] Absence of com- fort or pleasure; uneasine ; disturbance of peace; pain; grief; sorrow; disquietude. What mean you, sir, To give them this discomfort ? Look, they weep. Shak., A. and C., iv. 2. I will strike him dead For this discomfort he hath done the house. Tennyson, Lance lot and Elaine. Our life is overlaid and interwoven with a web of many skeins, and a strain, a hitch, or a tangle, at any one of a you sand points of interlacing, spreads discomfort which is felt as disaster. Bibliotheca Sacra , XLV. 28. discomfortable (dis-kum'fer-ta-bl), a. [OF. des con for table, desconforter , discomfort: see discomfort and -able , and cf. comfortable .] 1†. Causing uneasine ; unpleasant; giving pain; making sad. Out of al question, continual wealth interrupted with no tribulation is a very dis cum for table token of euerlasting damnation. Sir T. More , Cumfort against Tribulation (1573), fol. 47. What! did that help poor Dorus, whose eyes could carry unto him no other news but discomfortable ? Sir P. Sidney. 21. Uneasy; melancholy; refusing comfort. Discomfortable cousin. Shak ., Rich. II., iii. 2. 3. Causing discomfort; discommodious; uncomfortable. [Rare.] A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray. The gracious air, To me discomfortable and dun, became As weak smoke blowing in the under world. A. C. Swinburne , At Eleusis. discommend (dis-ko-mend'), v . t . [ dis -priv. + commend.] To expre or give occasion for disapprobation of; hold up or expose to censure or dislike: the opposite of recommend . Let not this saynge In no wyse thee offende, For playnge of instrumentes He doth not discommende . Babees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 345. Absolutely we cannot discommend , we cannot absolutely approve, either willingne to live or forwardne to die. A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry. Pepys , Diary, II. 152. discommends; a dispraiser. Imp. Dict. discommi ion (dis-ko-mish'on), r. t. [ sion. All this, for no apparent cause of publick Concernment to the Church or Commonwealth, but only for discom mi ioning nine great Officers in the Army. Milton , Ruptures of the Commonwealth.