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Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged.

Col. iii. 21.

2. To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.

Syn. -- To dishearten; dispirit; depress; deject; dissuade; disfavor.

Dis*cour"age, n. Lack of courage; cowardliness.

Dis*cour"age*a*ble (?), a. Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Bp. Hall.

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; dejection.

2. That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement. "Discouragements from vice." Swift.

Dis*cour"a*ger (?), n. One who discourages.

The promoter of truth and the discourager of error.

Sir G. C. Lewis.

Dis*cour"a*ging (?), a. Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.

Dis*coure" (?), v. t. To discover. [Obs.]

That none might her discoure.

Spenser.

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.] 1. The power of the mind to reason or infer by running, as it were, from one fact or reason to another, and deriving a conclusion; an exercise or act of this power; reasoning; range of reasoning faculty. [Obs.]

Difficult, strange, and harsh to the discourses of natural reason.

South.

Sure he that made us with such large discourse, Looking before and after, gave us not That capability and godlike reason To fust in us unused.

Shak.

2. Conversation; talk.

In their discourses after supper.

Shak.

Filling the head with variety of thoughts, and the mouth with copious discourse.

Locke.

3. The art and manner of speaking and conversing.

Of excellent breeding, admirable discourse.

Shak.