discommend

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I discommend them not: but straw Hiues are in vse with vs, and I thinke with all the world, which I commend for nimblenesse, closenesse, warmnesse and drinesse.

From A New Orchard And Garden or, The best way for planting, grafting, and to make any ground good, for a rich Orchard: Particularly in the North and generally for the whole kingdome of England by Lawson, William, fl. 1618

There is, I suppose, hardly a book which one ought to discommend to the young person more than La Religieuse.

From A History of the French Novel, Vol. 1 From the Beginning to 1800 by Saintsbury, George

I passe not I how men affected be, Nor who commend, or discommend my verse; It pleaseth me if I my plaints rehearse, And in my lynes if shee my loue may see.

From Minor Poems of Michael Drayton by Brett, Cyril

Neither do I discommend the lofty stile in tragedy, which is naturally pompous and magnificent; but nothing is truely sublime that is not just and proper.'

From The Lives of the Poets of Great Britain and Ireland (1753) Volume III by Cibber, Theophilus

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.