discomfit 
discomfitt (dis-kum'fit), n. 
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Discomycetes 
Bout ; defeat ; discomfiture. 
Dagon must stoop, and shall ere long receive 
[< discomfit, r.] dis C ommender(dis : ko : men'der) L . 7v Onewho a <g^ &^g3^^^?% 
discommends ; a dispraiser. Imp. Diet. 
discommission (dis-kg-mish'gn), v. t. [< dis- 
does not prove discommunity of descent. 
Darwin, Origin of Species, p. 404. 
uaffon must stoop, aim snail ere inn^ receive *w ~. \ - .. .. .- I^^^Am 
Such a discomfit as shall quite despoil him. priv. + commtsston^.] To deprive ot a commis- ai scomon erula (dis"ko-nio-ner'o-la), n. ; -p}.dis- 
Milton, S. A., 1. 469. s i on . mmonerula: (-le). [NL., < Gr. diaiios, a disk, + 
discomfiture (dis-kum'fi-tur), n. [< ME. dis- All this, for no apparent caiise of publick Concernment NL. Jonfrta.] In embryol., the monerula-stage 
comfiture (also by apheresis scomfiture: see to the Church or Commonwealth, but only for discom- of & me roblastic egg which undergoes discoidal 
scomfiture),^ OF. desconfiture, defeat, F.decon- missioning nine ^atofflcersmj he ^ ommmvie&m segmentation of the vitellus or yolk, and in 
fiture = Pr. desconfitura = It. sconfittura, < ML. 
disconfectura, defeat, < disconficere, pp. discon- discommodatet (dis-kom 9-dat), v. t 
fectus, defeat, discomfit: see discomfit, v.] 1. dis- priv. + commodatus, pp. of commodare, - tm j a It is a c} . to a e which includes formative yolk 
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germinating becomes in succession a disco- 
L- cytula, discomorula, discoblastula, and disco- 
Rout; defeat in battle; overthrow. 
. . f., ,__. i<(tLiuia. iv is a. c> unie WIIMHI inhumes iui umiivc j_nv 
make fit or suitable, < commodm, nt : see accom- t one pole> and very distinct nutr itive yolk at the other. 
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Every man's sword was against his fellow, and there was modate, and cf . discommode.] To discommode ; Haectel. 
, 
a very great discomfiture. 1 Sam. xiv. 20. 
Your lordship hath also heard of the Battle of Leip- 
sick, where Tilly, notwithstanding the Victory he had got 
over the D. of Saxony a few Days before, received an utter 
Discomfiture. Howell, Letters, I. v. 35. 
2. Defeat; frustration; disappointment. 
discomorula (dis-ko-mor'o-la), n. ; pi. discomo- 
. drain and discommodate the King J'Mte (-le). [NL., < Gr. diotiof, a disk, + NL. mo- 
rula.] In embryol., the morula or mulberry-mass 
which results from the partial and discoidal seg- 
mentation of the formative vitellus or yolk of a 
incommode. 
These Wars did . . 
of Spain, by reason of his Distance. 
Howell, Letters, I. ii. 15. 
discommode (dis-ko-mod'), v. t.; pret. and pp. 
discommoded, ppr. "discommoding. [< OF. des- meroblastic egg (amphicytula), and proceeds 
After five days' exertion, this man of indomitable will commo der, < L. (fa. pr i v . + commodare, make to develop successively into a discoblastula and 
and deir b ' e ' rtUne ^^ " "BSE* fit or suitable: see commode, and cf. discommo- 
discomfort (dis-kum'fert), . t. [< ME. dis- ^U^L^m^ 6 ' incommode ! 
comforten, disconforten, trouble, d^courage , < ^mn ^'/d s-ko-mo'di-us). a. dis- 
OF. desconforter, F. deconforter = Pr. descon- 
fortar, descofortar = Pg. desconfortar = It. 
WSIHJU'1 luit, tltswiyui tc/t, nwuwio, \*io^viii^w, -v J_ rt __ v , TvlA JJ_, le ; //i: Vrt -mrt'di na^ ft fY 
S^rssa^ =^ ^/rit ^r^ffi k a ^ tL*, 
disconfortare, sconfortare, discomfort, < L. dis- ' 
a discogastrula. It is in the shape of a flat disk of 
similar cells at the animal pole of the egg. A bird's egg 
is an example, the tread, or cicatricula, being found in all 
the stages aljove mentioned. Haeckel. 
discompaniedt (dis-kum'pa-nid), a. [< "discom- 
pany (< OF. descompaignier, desconpagnier, sep- 
arate, isolate, < rfs-priv. + compaianier, accom- 
m-iv + ~LL,' confortare, comfort: see dis- and In the fifth edict, all strangers are forbidden to carry pa ny: see <ft*-and company, v.) + -ed%.] With- 
^mfort, v.] To^disturb the comfort or happi- ^tule^^cr^^ 1110 f '" ""' g ld> ' ou/company; unaccompanied, 
ness of; make uncomfortable or uneasy ; pam; 
Sir 11. Wotton, Reliquia;, p. 657. 
discommodiously (dis-ko-mo'di-us-li), adv. In 
That is, if sh3 be alone now, and discompanied. 
B. Jonson, Cynthia's Revels, iii. 3. 
grieve; sadden; deject. 
Cecropia. . .came unto them, making courtesy the out- ^"dis^o'mroodious manner. Imp. Diet. discomplexiont (dis-kom-plek'shon), v. t. [< 
discommqdiousness (dis-ko-mo'di-us-nes), n. dis- priv. + complexion.] To change the corn- 
Inconvenience ; disadvantage; trouble. 
Sir P. Sidney, Arcadia, iii. 
So Biorn went comfortless but for his thought, 
And by his thought the more discomforted. 
Lowell, Voyage to Vinland. 
plexion or color of ; discolor. 
go It was plain the flght could not be but sharp and 
dangerous, for the discommodiousne.su of the place. 
North, tr. of Plutarch, p. 24. 
His rich cloaths be discompleximed 
witn bloua. 
Shirley (and Fletcher T), Coronation, i 
A discompliance [will discommend me] to my lord-chan- 
cellor. Pepys, Diary, II. 152. 
discomfort (dis-kum'fert), n. [< ME. discom- discommodity (dis-ko-mod'i-ti), n.; pi. dis- discompliancet (dis-kom-ph'ans), n. [< dts- 
fort, disconfort, < OF. deseonfort, F. deconfort commodities (-tiz). [? dis- priv. + commodity, priv. + compliance.] Non-compliance. 
= Pg. desconforto = It. disconforto, sconforto, (^ discommode, discommodious.] 1. Inconve- 
discomfort; from the verb.] Absence of com- j^e^e- trouble; hurt; disadvantage. 
fort or pleasure ; uneasiness ^disturbance of fajre Q on<j ^ discompose (dis-kom-poz'), . t. ; pret and pp. 
blasted, recomteth the tdiscommoditie of that, and passeth discomposed, ppr. discomposing. [= F. decom- 
ouer in silence the fruitefulnesse of the other. poser; as dis- priv. + compose. Cf. Sp. descom- 
Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of wit, p. 189. ^ oner _ Pg- descompor = It. discomporre, scom- 
You go about in rain or fine, at all hours, without dis- norre. < L. dis- priv. + componere, compose. Cf. 
commodity. Lamb. ^ f m- t--i J_A_ ! 3 ji~ 
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, Lancelot and Elaine. 
2. That which causes trouble, inconvenience, 
Our life is overlaid and interwoven with a web of many or hurt ; anything that injures ; a loss ; a trou- 
skeins, and a strain, a hitch, or a tangle, at any one of a )ji e all injury, 
thousand points of interlacing, spreads discomfort which 
is felt as disaster. Bibliotheca Sacra, XLV. 28. 
We read that Crates the Philosopher Cinicke, In respect 
decompose.] 1. To bring into disorder; dis- 
turb; disarrange; unsettle. 
A great impiety . . . hath stained the honour of a fam- 
ily, and discomposed its title to the divine mercies. 
Jer. Taylor. 
discomfortable (dis-kum'fer-ta-bl), a. [< OF. 
desconfortable, < desconforter, discomfort : see 
discomfort and -able, and cf. comfortable.] If. 
Causing uneasiness ; unpleasant ; giving pain ; 
making sad. 
Out of al question, continual wealth interrupted with 
no tribulation is a very discumfortable token of euerlast- 
ing damnation. 
Sir T. More, Comfort 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. 
2f. Uneasy ; melancholy ; refusing comfort. 
of the manifold discommodities of mans life, held opinion 2. To disturb peace and quietness in; agitate; 
,V,o ,f ,. K.. , ,. (n I, O ,,M !,,, hnr,,. nr ruffle> &g the temper or j,^ Q f 
We are then [in private] placed immediately under the 
eye of God, which awes us ; but under no other eyes, and 
in the neighbourhood of no other objects, which migbt di- 
vert or discompose us. Bp. Atterbury, Sermons, I. x. 
I am extremely discomposed when I hear scandal. 
Steele, Spectator, No. 348. 
Croaker. Don't be discomposed. 
Lofty. Zounds ! Sir, but I am discomposed, and will be 
discomposed. To be treated thus ! 
Goldsmith, Good-natured Man, v. 
3f. To displace ; discard ; discharge. 
that it was best for man neuer to haue bene borne or 
soone after to dye. Puttenham, Arte of Eng. Poesie, p. 171. 
The discommodities ; either imperfections or wants. 
Leigh (Arber's Eng. Garner, I. 647). 
Discommodity is, indeed, properly an abstract form 
signifying inconvenience or disadvantage ; . . . but as the 
noun commodities has been used in the English language 
for four hundred years at least as a concrete term, so we 
may now convert discommodity into a concrete term, and 
speak of discominodities as substances or things which 
possess the quality of causing inconvenience or harm. 
Jevons, Pol. Econ., p. 63. 
discommon (dis-kom'on), v. t. [< ME. discom- 
Discomfortable cousjn. Shak., Rich. II., iii. 2. enen < dis- priv. + comen, comon, common : see He never put down or discomposed counsellor, or near 
3. Causing discomfort; discommodious; un- common.] 1. To deprive of the character of a servant, save only Stanley. Bacon, Hist. Hen. VII., p. 242. 
comfortable. [Bare.] 
common, as a piece of land ; appropriate to pri- =Syn. 1. To derange, jumble, confuse. 2. To disconcert, 
A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets. Thackeray, vate ownership, as common land, by separating embarrass, fret, vex, nettle, irritate, annoy, worry. 
The gracious air, and inclosinz it. discompqsedness (dis-kom-po zed-nes), n. The 
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 express or give occasion for 
disapprobation of; hold up or expose to cen- 
sure or dislike : the opposite of recommend. 
Let not this saynge In no wyse thee offende, 
For playnge of instrumentes He doth not discommende, 
Rabees Book (E. E. T. S.), p. 345. 
and inclosing it. 
To develop the latent possibilities of English law and 
English character, by clearing away the fences by which 
the abuse of the one was gradually discommoning the 
other from the broad fields of natural right. 
Lowell, Among my Books, 1st ser., p. 290. 
2. To deprive of the right of a common. 
Whiles thou discomnumest thy neighbour's kyne. 
state of being discomposed ; disquietude. 
Believe it, sickness is not the fittest time either to learn 
virtue or to make our peace with God ; it is a time of dis- 
temper and dixfomposednejis. 
Sir M. Hale, Preparative against Afflictions. 
discompositiont (dis-kom-po-zish'on), n. [= F. 
decomposition = Sp. descomposicion = Pg. des- 
Bp Hatt Satires 'v 3 composiccto It. scomposizione ; as discompose 
3. To deprive of the privileges of a place ; espe- 
Absolutely we cannot (iw 
'., we cannot absolutely oially, in the universities of Oxford and Cam- 
approve, either willingness to live or forwardness to die. bridge, to prohibit (a tradesman or townsman 
Hooker, Eccles. Polity, v. 46. w ho has violated the regulations of the uni- 
A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry. 
+ -ition, after composition.] Inconsistency; in- 
congruity. 
O perplexed discomposition, O riddling distemper, 
O miserable condition of man ! 
Donne, Devotions, p. 8. 
discommendable (dis-ko-men'da-bl), o. [< cellor 
dis- priv. + -' -* " 
.] Not recommenda- 
Vt!IHll'y/ liUIIl Uceliillti WJ.111 lilt! liUUtltTl (HHlil Itrb. j /J" 1 S' ~ \ r/ A* 
The p'ower to do thfs lies with the ^ice-ohan- *?^flft^fa$ i 
posed; disorder; agitation; disturbance; per- 
ais- i>nv. T^ cvmmeHtuitic. \ i>ot rcronimf'iuiii- i^ i j *t -_u i j. j *i yvo^v*, mouiu^i , a,giut*iMwi , w 
i vi vi uionu, Declared the said persons nott discmnened nor dis- f,,,,v.otir,n o /?i<././>ne)/v> nf min.) 
ble ; blamable ; censurable ; deserving disap- taunchesid for any riatter or cause touchyng the vari- turbation . as, discomposure o 
probation. 
ances bytwext the sayd Mayer, baileffes, and Comnranalte. 
English Gilds (E. E. T. S.), p. 803. 
His countenance was cheerful, and all the time of his 
being on the scaffold there appeared in him no fear, dis- 
order, change of countenance, or dincomimsure. 
State Trials, Earl of Holland, an. 1649. 
Which [effeminate, amorous, wanton musicke] as it is 
discommendable in feasts and merry-meetings, so much discommons (dis-kom'onz), t). t. f< dw-priv. + 
more m churches^ Prynne, Histrio-Mastix, II., v. 10. commons : see commons, 4.] Same as discom- , 
discommendableness (dis-ko-men'da-bl-nes), man, 3. 2f. Inconsistency; incongruity ; disagreement. 
n. Blamableness; the quality of beilig worthy The ownera [of i od?in g.houses] being solemnly bound How exquisite a symmetry ... in the Scripture's 
of disapprobation. Jlailey, 1727. to report all their lodgers who stay out at night, under method, in spite of those seeming ditcompotunt that now 
discommendation (dis-kom-en-da'shon), n. pain of being dwcOTn?mmed. puzzle me ! Boyle, Works, II. 275. 
[< dis- priv. + commendation.] Blame"; cen- C. ^1. Brtsted, English University, p. 108, note, discomptt, ''. t. An obsolete spellingof rf/swHHf. 
sure; reproach. discommunity (dis-ko-mu'ni-ti), n. [< dis- Discomycetes (dis'ko-mi-se'tez), n, pi. [NL., 
It were a blemish rather then an ornament, a discom- priv. + community.] Want of community; ab- < Gr. iioKof, a disk, -f 'fii'Kr/f, pi. /li-KnTec,, fungus.] 
mentation then a prayse. Hakewill, Apology, p. 289. sence of common origin or qualities. [Kare.] A large group of ascomycetous fungi, in which 
