discommend
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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
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
Heaven forbid that I should discommend The gratis, charitable, jail-endeavor!
From The Poetical Works of Thomas Hood by Hood, Thomas
The company a word has kept, its history, faculties, and predilections, endear or discommend it to his instinct.
From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir
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.
