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Loss; detriment; hindrance; prejudice to interest, fame, credit, profit, or other good. They would throw a construction on his conduct, to his disadvantage before the public. Bancroft.

To deprive of credit or authority; to discredit. [R.] W. Wotton.

s fully persuaded that an opinion, assertion, or doctrine is not true; refusal of assent, credit, or credence; denial of belief. Our belief or disbelief of a thing does not alter the nature of the thing. Tillotson. No sadder proof can be given by a man of his own littleness that disbelief in great men. Carlyle.…

To send away (a creditor) satisfied by payment; to pay one's debt or obligation to. [Obs.] If he had The present money to discharge the Jew. Shak.

That which brings dishonor; cause of shame or reproach; great discredit; as, vice is a disgrace to a rational being.

Loss or want of reputation; ill character; disesteem; discredit. At the beginning of the eighteenth century astrology fell into general disrepute. Sir W. Scott.

To discredit; to contradict. [Obs.] Shak.

A deprivation of honor; a cause of disgrace; a discredit. [Obs.] Milton.

er; as, divers philosophers. Also used substantively or pronominally. Divers of Antonio's creditors. Shak.

ied to the profits as appropriated among shareholders, and to assets as apportioned among creditors; as, the dividend of a bank, a railway corporation, or a bankrupt estate.

origin. See Elder. "My lady's eldest son." Shak. Their eldest historians are of suspected credit. Bp. Stillingfleet. Eldest hand (Card Playing), the player on the dealer's left hand. R. A. Proctor.

ue forth, as an order or decree; to print and send into circulation, as notes or bills of credit. No State shall . . . emit bills of credit. Const. of the U. S.

treaty, or transact other business, with a foreign sovereign or government; a minister accredited to a foreign government. An envoy's rank is below that of an ambassador.

al recognition of a consul or commercial agent, issued by the government to which he is accredited, and authorizing him to exercise his powers in the place to which he is assigned.

A written engagement on the part of a creditor, allowing a debtor further time to pay a debt. Counter extension. (Surg.) See under Counter. -- Extension table, a table so constructed as to be readily extended or contracted in length.

ess of execution by which the lands and goods of a debtor are valued and delivered to the creditor.

Not believing; not giving credit. Be not faithless, but believing. John xx. 27.

mpairs excellence; a failing; a defect; a blemish. As patches set upon a little breach Discredit more in hiding of the fault. Shak.

n a way unsuitable for the use of others, and then threatening not to take them except on credit. [R.] Goldsmith.

To support and sustain the credit of, as a commercial scheme or a joint-stock company, so as to enable