Discounsel
Dis‐coun″sel (?), v. t. [Pref. dis- + counsel: cf. OF. desconseiller.] To dissuade. Spenser.
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Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary, C. & G. Merriam Co., 1913.
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Discount
Dis″count′ (?; 277), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Discounted; p. pr. & vb. n.Discounting.] [OF. desconter, descompter, to deduct, F. décompter to discount; pref. des- (L. dis-) + conter, ...
Discount (2)
Dis″count′ (?; 277), v. i. To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
Discount (3)
Dis″count′ (?), n. [Cf. F. décompte. See Discount, v. t.] 1. A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, deman...
Discountable
Dis‐count″a‐ble (?), a. Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.
Discountenance
Dis‐coun″te‐nance (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Discountenanced (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Discountenancing (?).] [Pref. dis- + countenance: cf. OF. descontenancer, F. décontenancer.] 1. To ...
Discountenance (2)
Dis‐coun″te‐nance, n. Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.He thought a little discountenance on those pe...
Discountenancer
Dis‐coun″te‐nan‐cer (?), n. One who discountenances; one who disfavors. Bacon.
Discounter
Dis″count′er (?), n. One who discounts; a discount broker. Burke.
Discourage
Dis‐cour″age (?; 48), v. t. [imp. & p. p.Discouraged (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Discouraging (?).] [Pref. dis- + courage: cf. OF. descoragier, F. décourager: pref. des- (L. dis-) + cor...
Discourage (2)
Dis‐cour″age, n. Lack of courage; cowardliness.
Discourageable
Dis‐cour″age‐a‐ble (?), a. Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Bp. Hall.
Discouragement
Dis‐cour″age‐ment (?), n. [Cf. OF. descouragement, F. découragement.] 1. The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejec...
Discourager
Dis‐cour″a‐ger (?), n. One who discourages.The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis.
Discouraging
Dis‐cour″a‐ging (?), a. Causing or indicating discouragement. — Dis‐cour″a‐ging‐ly, adv.
Discoure
Dis‐coure″ (?), v. t. To discover.That none might her discoure. Spenser.
Discourse
Dis‐course″ (?), n. [L. discursus a running to and fro, discourse, fr. discurrere, discursum, to run to and fro, to discourse; dis- + currere to run: cf. F. discours. See Course...
Discourse (2)
Dis‐course″ (?), v. i. [imp. & p. p.Discoursed (?); p. pr. & vb. n.Discoursing.] 1. To exercise reason; to employ the mind in judging and inferring; to reason. “Have sense or ca...
Discourse (3)
Dis‐course″, v. t. 1. To treat of; to expose or set forth in language.The life of William Tyndale... is sufficiently and at large discoursed in the book. Foxe.2. To utter or giv...
Discourser
Dis‐cours″er (?), n. 1. One who discourse; a narrator; a speaker; an haranguer.In his conversation he was the most clear discourser. Milward.2. The writer of a treatise or disse...
Discoursive
Dis‐cours″ive (?), a. [See Discursive.] 1. Reasoning; characterized by reasoning; passing from premises to consequences; discursive. Milton.2. Containing dialogue or conversatio...
Discoursive (2)
Dis‐cours″ive, n. The state or quality of being discoursive or able to reason. Feltham.
Discourteous
Dis‐cour″te‐ous (?; see Courteous, 277), a. [Pref. dis- + courteous: cf. OF. discortois.] Uncivil; rude; wanting in courtesy or good manners; uncourteous. — Dis‐cour″te‐ous‐ly, ...
Discourtesy
Dis‐cour″te‐sy (?), n. [Pref. dis- + courtesy: cf. OF. descourtoisie.] Rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; manifestation of disrespect; incivility.Be calm in arguing;...
Discourtship
Dis‐court″ship (?), n. Want of courtesy. B. Jonson.
Discous
Disc″ous (?), a. [L. discus disk. See Disk.] Disklike; discoid.
Discovenant
Dis‐cov″e‐nant (?), v. t. To dissolve covenant with.