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discommendable - definition and meaning
Definitions
from The Century Dictionary.
Not recommendable; blamable; censurable; deserving disapprobation.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
adjective Deserving, disapprobation or blame.
from Wiktionary , Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
adjective Deserving disapprobation or blame .
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That church held it for a just canon, and that indeed no discommendable one neither, He that prays ought always, when he prays, to join with the church.
From the Talmud and Hebraica 1602-1675 1979
He spent much, and had much use of his Subjects purses, which bred some clashings with them in Parliament, yet would alwayes come off, and end with a sweet and plausible close; and truly his bounty was not discommendable , for his raising Favourites was the worst: Rewarding old servants, and releiving his Native Country-men, was infinitely more to be commended in him, then condemned.
Characters from 17th Century Histories and Chronicles Various
Secondly, when a writer, catching hold of a fault which has no reference to his story, shall draw it into the relation of such affairs as need it not, extending his narrative with cicumlocutions, only that he may insert a man’s misfortune, offence, or discommendable action, it is manifest that he delights in speaking evil.
Essays and Miscellanies 2004
I suppose, to his being sown in his skin when cold after roasting.] [Footnote 193: The fat of _Rabet-suckers_, and little Birds, and small Chickens, is not discommendable , because it is soon and lightly overcome of an indifferent stomack.
Early English Meals and Manners Frederick James Furnivall 1867
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