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Definition of Discommended
1. discommend [v] - See also: discommend
Lexicographical Neighbors of Discommended
Literary usage of Discommended
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. The Anatomy of Melancholy: What it is with All the Kinds, Causes, Symptoms by Robert Burton (1883)
"Not that fasting is a thing itself to be discommended, for it is an excellent
... Not that these things (as I said of fasting) arc to be discommended of ..."
2. An Arabic-English Lexicon: Derived from the Best and the Most Copious by Edward William Lane (1863)
"Ù ' Í . * sayest, t>î«)l ejj-j U. (T.) One says also, IJv • »t ^j*>j"3\ He
dispraised, or discommended, the pasture of the land. ..."
3. The Confessions of St. Augustine by Augustine (1909)
"... are, after the rule of perfection, discommended, yet the persons commended,
upon hope of future fruit, as in the green blade of growing corn. ..."
4. The Praise of Folly by Desiderius Erasmus (1913)
"And now, if there be any one that is yet dissatisfied, let him at least remember
that it is no dishonour to be discommended by Folly ; and having brought ..."
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