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The act of discrediting or disbelieving, or the state of being discredited or disbelieved; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit.

Not creditable; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable. -- Dis*cred"it*a*bly, adv.

One who discredits.

say I wink at what he does. G. Eliot. To blow upon. (a) To blast; to taint; to bring into discredit; to render stale, unsavory, or worthless. (b) To inform against. [Colloq.] How far the very custom of hearing anything spouted withers and blows upon a fine passage, may be seen in those speeches from [Shakespeare's] Hen…

wn; to censure as faulty, mean, or worthless; to clamor against; to blame clamorously; to discredit; to disparage. For small errors they whole plays decry. Dryden. Measures which are extolled by one half of the kingdom are naturally decried by the other. Addison.

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

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.

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

Hence, to charge with impropriety; to dishonor; to bring discredit on; to call in question; as, to impeach one's motives or conduct. And doth impeach the freedom of the state. Shak.

ense; as, the evidence implicates many in this conspiracy; to be implicated in a crime, a discreditable transaction, a fault, etc.

To deal in; to make merchandise of; to traffic in; -- used chiefly of discreditable traffic.

handicraft; hence, any business with which one is usually occupied. Fie upon him, he will discredit our mystery. Shak. And that which is the noblest mystery Brings to reproach and common infamy. Spenser.

avor. Had I been the finder-out of this secret, it would not have relished among my other discredits. Shak. A theory, which, how much soever it may relish of wit and invention, hath no foundation in nature. Woodward.

of merit. Swift. To save appearance, to preserve a decent outside; to avoid exposure of a discreditable state of things.

To bring discredit or shame upon by one's acts. Tax not so bad a voice To slander music any more than once. Shak.

ibed in a work attributed to Philo, the genuineness and credibility of which are now much discredited.

To cause to be disbelieved; to discredit. [Obs.] Fuller.