discommend

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Homer also discommends the government of many; but whether he means this we are speaking of, or where each person exercises his power separately, is uncertain.

From Politics: A Treatise on Government by Ellis, William

I pass not, I, how men affected be, Nor who commends or discommends my verse!

From Elizabethan Sonnet Cycles: Idea, Fidesa and Chloris by Crow, Martha Foote

A great deal of doctrine commends and discommends itself by the delivery: and an honest thing may be said so foolishly as to disprove its very honesty.

From The Letters of Robert Browning and Elizabeth Barrett Barrett, Vol. 1 (of 2) 1845-1846 by Browning, Robert

The beauty of Lucrezia Commends, not discommends, her to the eyes Of keener thinkers than I take thee for.

From Seven Men by Beerbohm, Max, Sir

For as their hearers are, so will actors be; worse or better, as the false or true taste applauds or discommends them.

From How to See a Play by Burton, Richard Francis, Sir