discommend

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The company a word has kept, its history, faculties, and predilections, endear or discommend it to his instinct. 

From Style by Raleigh, Walter Alexander, Sir

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

The flatterer is blear-eyed to ill, and cannot see vices; and his tongue walks ever in one track of unjust praises, and can no more tell how to discommend than to speak true.

From Character Writings of the 17th Century by Various

Who else shall discommend her choice, I giving it my hearty voice?

From Victories of Love by Patmore, Coventry Kersey Dighton

No, no, it is impossible; but your ladyship can't discommend his unwillingness to depart from his fee.

From Joseph Andrews, Volume 2 by Fielding, Henry