discompose
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This did not seem to discompose him; on the contrary, he looked rather amused.
From "Harry Potter and the Half-Blood Prince" by J.K. Rowling
Disease is = dis-ease, discompose, as used by Phineas Fletcher: cf. vol. iii. p.
From The Complete Works of Richard Crashaw, Volume I (of 2) by Richard Crashaw
Small changes in the household arrangements were likely to discompose him.
From The Preliminaries And Other Stories by Cornelia A. P. Comer
It may be he is right: it is not for me to gainsay him, or to further discompose his temper, when all the evidence is so plainly visible.
From Seeds of Pine by Janey Canuck
But you cannot upset the punt any more than you can discompose the Englishman; the punt simply upsets you without seeming to be aware of it.
From An American at Oxford by John Corbin
Without the injured Albiston, who had failed to emerge after the half-time break, they were crucially discomposed when Sulley took a corner in the sixtieth minute.
From The Guardian ● Jan. 9, 2016
As the poison of jealousy moves through his blood, Leontes’s seething monologues are accompanied by eerie, high-pitched strains in Keith Clouston’s score that cannily evoke the warped perspective of a discomposed mind.
From New York Times ● Jul. 24, 2011
He would call himself a Radical, and would not be greatly discomposed if someone called him a Socialist.
From Time Magazine Archive
I found Senator Glass lying on top of his counterpane, angrily nursing a bandaged toe, his hair and his pillow and his pajama coat and the bedding discomposed as he tossed to and fro.
From Time Magazine Archive
The young man Sorve, not at all discomposed, led me on and brought me into the Inner Hearth to the Lord of Estre.
From "The Left Hand of Darkness" by Ursula K. Le Guin
Here, lines define the two figures while simultaneously discomposing and merging them.
From New York Times ● Nov. 18, 2021
He touched his cap to the discomposing stranger and marched up to the big house on the ledges; he was not approaching with alacrity what was ahead of him.
From Joan of Arc of the North Woods by Holman Day
The cabin door opened discreetly and Powell, incarnation of decorous punctualities even amid existing tumultuously discomposing circumstances, entered.
From The History of Sir Richard Calmady A Romance by Lucas Malet
St Paul’s was one of those minds, so discomposing to superficial and merely practical thinkers, which cannot be content with half-way conclusions.
From The Expositor's Bible: Ephesians by G. G. Findlay
He had not learned before that ladies' eyes are sometimes very discomposing.
From Alec Forbes of Howglen by George MacDonald
