Discommend transitive verb
1. To mention with disapprobation; to blame; to disapprove. [ R.] Spenser.

By commending something in him that is good, and discommending the same fault in others.

Jer. Taylor.

2. To expose to censure or ill favor; to put out of the good graces of any one.

A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry.

Pepys.

Discommendable (dĭs`kŏm*mĕnd"ȧ*b'l) adjective Deserving, disapprobation or blame. -- Dis`com*mend"a*ble*ness , noun

Discommendation noun Blame; censure; reproach. [ R.] Ayliffe.

Discommender noun One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.

Discommission transitive verb To deprive of a commission or trust. [ R.] Laud.

Discommodate transitive verb [ Latin dis- + commodatus , past participle of commodare to make fit or suitable, from commodus fit, commodious. See Commodious , and confer Discommode .] To discommode. [ Obsolete] Howell.

Discommode transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Discommoded ; present participle & verbal noun Discommoding .] [ See Discommodate .] To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble. [ R.]

Syn. -- To incommode; annoy; inconvenience.

Discommodious adjective Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious. [ R.] Spenser.

-- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ly , adverb -- Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ness , noun

Discommodity noun Disadvantage; inconvenience. Bacon.

Discommon transitive verb
1. To deprive of the right of common. [ R.] Bp. Hall.

2. To deprive of privileges. [ R.] T. Warton.

3. (Law) To deprive of commonable quality, as lands, by inclosing or appropriating. Burrill.

Discommunity noun A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship.

Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent.

Darwin.

Discompany transitive verb To free from company; to dissociate. [ R.]

It she be alone now, and discompanied .

B. Jonson.

Discomplexion transitive verb To change the complexion or hue of. [ Obsolete] Beau. & Fl.

Discompliance noun Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance.

A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor.

Pepys.

Discompose transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Discomposed ; present participle & verbal noun Discomposing .] [ Prefix dis- + compose : confer Old French decomposer , French décomposer .]
1. To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.

Or discomposed the headdress of a prude.

Pope.

2. To throw into disorder; to ruffle; to destroy the composure or equanimity; to agitate.

Opposition . . . discomposeth the mind's serenity.

Glanvill.

3. To put out of place or service; to discharge; to displace. [ Obsolete] Bacon.

Syn. -- To disorder; derange; unsettle; disturb; disconcert; agitate; ruffle; fret; vex.

Discomposed adjective Disordered; disturbed; disquieted. -- Dis`com*pos"ed*ly adverb -- Dis`com*pos"ed*ness , noun

Discomposition noun Inconsistency; discordance. [ Obsolete] Donne.

Discomposure noun
1. The state of being discomposed; disturbance; disorder; agitation; perturbation.

No discomposure stirred her features.

Akenside.

2. Discordance; disagreement of parts. [ Obsolete] Boyle.

Discompt transitive verb [ See Discount .] To discount. See Discount . Hudibras.

Disconcert transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disconcerted ; present participle & verbal noun Disconcerting .] [ Prefix dis- + concert : confer Old French desconcerter , French déconcerter .]
1. To break up the harmonious progress of; to throw into disorder or confusion; as, the emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy.

2. To confuse the faculties of; to disturb the composure of; to discompose; to abash.

The embrace disconcerted the daughter-in-law somewhat, as the caresses of old gentlemen unshorn and perfumed with tobacco might well do.

Thackeray.

Syn. -- To discompose; derange; ruffle; confuse; disturb; defeat; frustrate.

Disconcert noun Want of concert; disagreement. Sir W. Temple.

Disconcertion noun The act of disconcerting, or state of being disconcerted; discomposure; perturbation. [ R.] State Trials (1794).

Disconducive adjective Not conductive; impeding; disadvantageous. [ R.]

Disconformable adjective Not conformable.

Disconformable in religion from us.

Stow (1603).

Disconformity noun Want of conformity or correspondence; inconsistency; disagreement.

Those . . . in some disconformity to ourselves.

Milton.

Disagreement and disconformity betwixt the speech and the conception of the mind.

Hakewill.

Discongruity noun Incongruity; disagreement; unsuitableness. Sir M. Hale.

Disconnect transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Disconnected ; present participle & verbal noun Disconnecting .] To dissolve the union or connection of; to disunite; to sever; to separate; to disperse.

The commonwealth itself would . . . be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality.

Burke.

This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals.

Walsh.

Disconnection noun The act of disconnecting, or state of being disconnected; separation; want of union.

Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members but weakness, disconnection , and confusion.

Burke.

Disconsecrate transitive verb To deprive of consecration or sacredness. [ R.]

Disconsent (dĭs`kŏn*sĕnt") intransitive verb To differ; to disagree; to dissent. [ Obsolete] Milton.

Disconsolacy noun The state of being disconsolate. [ Obsolete] Barrow.

Disconsolate noun Disconsolateness. [ Obsolete] Barrow.

Disconsolate adjective [ Late Latin disconsolatus ; Latin dis- + consolatus , past participle of consolari to console. See Console , transitive verb ]
1. Destitute of consolation; deeply dejected and dispirited; hopelessly sad; comfortless; filled with grief; as, a bereaved and disconsolate parent.

One morn a Peri at the gate
Of Eden stood disconsolate .

Moore.

The ladies and the knights, no shelter nigh,
Were dropping wet, disconsolate and wan.

Dryden.

2. Inspiring dejection; saddening; cheerless; as, the disconsolate darkness of the winter nights. Ray.

Syn. -- Forlorn; melancholy; sorrowful; desolate; woeful; hopeless; gloomy.

-- Dis*con"so*late*ly , adverb -- Dis*con"so*late*ness , noun

Disconsolated adjective Disconsolate. [ Obsolete]

A poor, disconsolated , drooping creature.

Sterne.

Disconsolation noun Dejection; grief. [ R.] Bp. Hall.

Discontent (dĭs`kŏn*tĕnt") adjective Not content; discontented; dissatisfied. Jer. Taylor.

Passion seemed to be much discontent , but Patience was very quiet.

Bunyan.

Discontent transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Discontented ; present participle & verbal noun Discontenting .] To deprive of content; to make uneasy; to dissatisfy. Suckling.

Discontent noun
1. Want of content; uneasiness and inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction; disquiet.

Now is the winter of our discontent
Made glorious summer by this sun of York.

Shak.

The rapacity of his father's administration had excited such universal discontent .

Hallam

2. A discontented person; a malcontent. [ R.]

Thus was the Scotch nation full of discontents .

Fuller.

Discontentation noun Discontent. [ Obsolete] Ascham.

Discontented past participle & adjective Dissatisfied; uneasy in mind; malcontent.

And every one that was in distress, and every one that was in debt, and every one that was discontented , gathered themselves unto him.

1 Sam. xxii. 2.

-- Dis`con*tent"ed*ly , adverb -- Dis`con*tent"ed*ness , noun

Discontentful adjective Full of discontent. [ R.]

Discontenting adjective
1. Discontented. [ Obsolete] Shak.

2. Causing discontent; dissatisfying. Milton.

Discontentive adjective Relating or tending to discontent. [ R.] "Pride is ever discontentive ." Feltham.

Discontentment noun The state of being discontented; uneasiness; inquietude. Bacon.

Discontinuable adjective Admitting of being discontinued. [ R.]

Discontinuance noun
1. The act of discontinuing, or the state of being discontinued; want of continued connection or continuity; breaking off; cessation; interruption; as, a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse; discontinuance of a highway or of travel.

2. (Law) (a) A breaking off or interruption of an estate, which happened when an alienation was made by a tenant in tail, or other tenant, seized in right of another, of a larger estate than the tenant was entitled to, whereby the party ousted or injured was driven to his real action, and could not enter. This effect of such alienation is now obviated by statute in both England and the United States. (b) The termination of an action in practice by the voluntary act of the plaintiff; an entry on the record that the plaintiff discontinues his action. (c) That technical interruption of the proceedings in pleading in an action, which follows where a defendant does not answer the whole of the plaintiff's declaration, and the plaintiff omits to take judgment for the part unanswered. Wharton's Law Dict. Burrill.

Syn. -- Cessation; intermission; discontinuation; separation; disunion; disjunction; disruption; break.

Discontinuation noun [ Confer French discontinuation .] Breach or interruption of continuity; separation of parts in a connected series; discontinuance.

Upon any discontinuation of parts, made either by bubbles or by shaking the glass, the whole mercury falls.

Sir I. Newton.

Discontinue transitive verb [ imperfect & past participle Discontinued ; present participle & verbal noun Discontinuing .] [ Confer French discontinuer .] To interrupt the continuance of; to intermit, as a practice or habit; to put an end to; to cause to cease; to cease using, to stop; to leave off.

Set up their conventicles again, which had been discontinued .

Bp. Burnet.

I have discontinued school
Above a twelvemonth.

Shak.

Taught the Greek tongue, discontinued before in these parts the space of seven hundred years.

Daniel.

They modify and discriminate the voice, without appearing to discontinue it.

Holder.

Discontinue intransitive verb
1. To lose continuity or cohesion of parts; to be disrupted or broken off. Bacon.

2. To be separated or severed; to part.

Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage.

Jer. xvii. 4.

Discontinuee noun (Law) One whose possession of an estate is broken off, or discontinued; one whose estate is subject to discontinuance.