discommend

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The flatterer is blear-eyed to ill, and cannot see vices; and his tongue walks ever in one track of unjust praises, and can no more tell how to discommend than to speak true.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

Some vse to bare trees rootes in Winter, to stay the setting til hotter seasons, which I discommend, because, 1.

From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by Lawson, William, fl. 1618

This threat is to the fools, that squeam At every thing of good esteem; And that they may to taste pretend, Ev’n heaven itself will discommend.

From The Fables of Phædrus Literally translated into English prose with notes by Riley, Henry T. (Henry Thomas)

Yet I would not have you to beleeve, tho I so much discommend it, that it is no waies usefully profitable.

From The Ten Pleasures of Marriage and the Second Part, The Confession of the New Married Couple by Marsh, A.

I do not discommend or derogate from those other studies; I should betray mine own ignorance and weakness should I do so; I only wish they might not altogether justle out and exclude this.

From Lives of Eminent Zoologists, from Aristotle to Linnæus with Introductory remarks on the Study of Natural History by MacGillivray, William