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Dis`com*mend"a*ble (ds`km*mnd"*b'l), a. Deserving, disapprobation or blame. -- Dis`com*mend"a*ble*ness, n.

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

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

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

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.

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.

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.

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

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.

Dis`com*mu"ni*ty (?), n. A lack of common possessions, properties, or relationship.

Community of embryonic structure reveals community of descent; but dissimilarity of embryonic development does not prove discommunity of descent.

Darwin.

Dis*com"pa*ny (?), v. t. To free from company; to dissociate. [R.]

It she be alone now, and discompanied.

B. Jonson.

Dis`com*plex"ion (?), v. t. To change the complexion or hue of. [Obs.] Beau. & Fl.

Dis`com*pli"ance (?), n. Failure or refusal to comply; noncompliance.

A compliance will discommend me to Mr. Coventry, and a discompliance to my lord chancellor.

Pepys.

Dis`com*pose" (?), v. t. [imp. & p. p. Discomposed (?); p. pr. & vb. n. Discomposing.] [Pref. dis- + compose: cf. OF. decomposer, F. décomposer.] 1. To disarrange; to interfere with; to disturb; to disorder; to unsettle; to break up.

Or discomposed the headdress of a prude.

Pope.

2. To throw into disorder; to ruffle; to destroy the composure or equanimity; to agitate.

Opposition . . . discomposeth the mind's serenity.

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