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That may produce discord; disagreeing; discordant. [R.] Halliwell.

State or quality of being discordant; disagreement; inconsistency. There will arise a thousand discordances of opinion. I. Taylor.

Disagreeing; incongruous; being at variance; clashing; opposing; not harmonious. The discordant elements out of which the emperor had compounded his realm did not coalesce. Motley.

Full of discord; contentious. [Obs.] "His discordful dame." Spenser.

Full of discord. [Obs.]

Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate. [Obs.] Jas. II.

Incongruous. W. Montagu.

Same as Discoast. [Obs.]

To dissuade. [Obs.] Spenser.

an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.

Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.

To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash. How would one look from his majestic brow . . . Discountenance her despised! Milton. The hermit was somewhat discountenanced by this observation. Sir W. Scott.

One who discountenances; one who disfavors. Bacon.

One who discounts; a discount broker. Burke.

spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt. Fathers, provoke not your children to anger, lest they be discouraged. Col. iii. 21.

Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened. Bp. Hall.

The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.

One who discourages. The promoter of truth and the discourager of error. Sir G. C. Lewis.

Causing or indicating discouragement. -- Dis*cour"a*ging*ly, adv.

To discover. [Obs.] That none might her discoure. Spenser.