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The state of being disanimated or discouraged; depression of spirits.

and voluntary corporal punishment, as penance, or otherwise; specifically, a penitential scourge.

To discourage; to deject. His funeral shall not be in our camp, Lest it discomfort us. Shak.

f one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage. A town meeting was convened to discountenance riot. Bancroft.

To discover; to reveal; to discoure. [Obs.] I will, if please you it discure, assay To ease you of that ill, so wisely as I may. Spenser.

The act of discoursing or reasoning; range, as from thought to thought. Coleridge.

A discourser. [Obs.] L. Addison.

Discouragement. [Obs.] Spectator.

a blot. Uncommon expressions . . . are a disfigurement rather than any embellishment of discourse. Hume.

To treat discourteously; to upbraid; to revile. The goddess wroth gan foully her disgrace. Spenser.

To discourage; to deprive of courage and hope; to depress the spirits of; to deject. Regiments . . . utterly disorganized and disheartened. Macaulay.

Discouragement; dejection; depression of spirits.

To deprive of cheerful spirits; to depress the spirits of; to dishearten; to discourage. Not dispirited with my afflictions. Dryden. He has dispirited himself by a debauch. Collier.

Depression of spirits; discouragement. [R.] Procter, in evident distress and dispiritment, was waiting the slow conclusion of this. Carlyle.

Wanting in punctilious respect; discourteous. [Obs.] That were dispunct to the ladies. B. Jonson.

Want of respect or reverence; disesteem; incivility; discourtesy. Impatience of bearing the least affront or disrespect. Pope.

To discourse or dispute; to discuss. [R.] We have disserted upon it a little longer than was necessary. Jeffrey.

To deal in dissertation; to write dissertations; to discourse. [R.] J. Foster.

A formal or elaborate argumentative discourse, oral or written; a disquisition; an essay; a discussion; as, Dissertations on the Prophecies.

One who writers a dissertation; one who discourses. Boyle.