discounter

[Eng. discount; -er.] One who discounts bills, .; a discount-broker. "Usurers, pedlars, and Jew discounters, at the corners of the streets."-Burke: Letter to a Member of the National A embly . dis-count-ing, pr. par., a. & s. [DISCOUNT, v.] A. & B. As pr. pa & particip. adj.: (See the verb.) C. As subst.: The act or practice of advancing money on bills, notes, .; the occupation of a dis counter. "Discounting was not active." -London Daily Telegraph ; Money Market. IMG:content-0057.png:[blocks in formation] and things.) "Persons whom the nece ity of their worldly affairs compels them to discourage."-Clarke: On the Attributes, prop. 2. 3. To deprive of the spirit, courage, or will to do anything; to deter, to di uade. (Properly followed by from , though formerly to was also used.) "Other nations need not be discouraged from the like attempts."- Rambler , No. 152. *B. In trans.: To lose courage; to become discouraged or disheartened. "Because that poore Churche shulde not utterly dis. courage." - Vocacyon of Johan Bale (1553). (Davies.) For the difference between to discourage and to deter , sce DETER. *dis-cour'-age (age as Ig), s. [Pref. dis , and Eng. courage (q. v.). Discouragement, disheartening; the state of being discouraged, disheartened, or dispirited. "There undoubtedly is grievous discourage and peril of conscience."- Sir T. Elyot: Governor, fol. 209. dis-cour'-age-a-ble (age as ig), a . [Eng. dis courage ; -able .] Capable of being discouraged; liable to discouragement. "Not discourageable by the most hateful indignities." -Hall: Contempl.; The Fig-tree. dis-cour-aged (aged as Igd), pa. par. or a. [DISCOURAGE, V.]