2. Want of comfort; uneasiness, mental or physical; disturbance of peace; inquietude; pain; distress; sorrow. "An age of spiritual discomfort." M. Arnold.

Strive against all the discomforts of thy sufferings.
Bp. Hall.

Discomfortable
(Dis*com"fort*a*ble) a. [Cf. OF. desconfortable.]

1. Causing discomfort; occasioning uneasiness; making sad. [Obs.] Sir P. Sidney.

2. Destitute of comfort; uncomfortable. [R.]

A labyrinth of little discomfortable garrets.
Thackeray.

Dis*com"fort*a*ble*ness, n. [Obs.]

Discommend
(Dis`com*mend") v. t.

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
(Dis`com*mend"a*ble) a. Deserving, disapprobation or blame.Dis`com*mend"a*ble*ness, n.

Discommendation
(Dis*com`men*da"tion) n. Blame; censure; reproach. [R.] Ayliffe.

Discommender
(Dis`com*mend"er) n. One who discommends; a dispraiser. Johnson.

Discommission
(Dis`com*mis"sion) v. t. To deprive of a commission or trust. [R.] Laud.

Discommodate
(Dis*com"mo*date) v. t. [L. dis- + commodatus, p. p. of commodare to make fit or suitable, fr. commodus fit, commodious. See Commodious, and cf. Discommode.] To discommode. [Obs.] Howell.

Discommode
(Dis`com*mode") v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discommoded; p. pr. & vb. n. Discommoding.] [See Discommodate.] To put inconvenience; to incommode; to trouble. [R.]

Syn. — To incommode; annoy; inconvenience.

Discommodious
(Dis`com*mo"di*ous) a. Inconvenient; troublesome; incommodious. [R.] Spenser.

Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ly, adv.Dis`com*mo"di*ous*ness, n.

Discommodity
(Dis`com*mod"i*ty) n. Disadvantage; inconvenience. Bacon.

Discommon
(Dis*com"mon) v. t.

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.


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