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k of honor; disgrace; ignominy; shame; reproach. It was not meet for us to see the king's dishonor. Ezra iv. 14. His honor rooted in dishonor stood. Tennyson.

Wanting in honor; not honorable; bringing or deserving dishonor; staining the character, and lessening the reputation; shameful; disgraceful; base.

Bringing dishonor on; tending to disgrace; lessening reputation. Holmes.

One who dishonors or disgraces; one who treats another indignity. Milton.

A mark of dishonor on an escutcheon.

To dishonor. "Shall flight abuse your name" Shak.

An ensign or flag. [Obs.] More dishonorable ragged than an old-faced ancient. Shak.

A stain or staining; state of being in dishonor or condemnation. [Obs.] He lived from all attainder of suspect. Shak. Bill of attainder, a bill brought into, or passed by, a legislative body, condemning a person to death or outlawry, and attainder, without judicial sentence.

To accuse; to charge with a crime or a dishonorable act. [Archaic]

In a base manner; with despicable meanness; dishonorably; shamefully.

To smirch or soil; to discolor; to obscure. Hence: To dishonor; to sully. Shak.

ng; pain inflicted for punishment and correction; discipline; punishment. Shall I so much dishonor my fair stars, On equal terms to give him chastesement! Shak. I have borne chastisement; I will not offend any more. Job xxxiv. 31.

Disgrace; dishonor. [Obs.] Bailey.

the good fame or reputation of; to disgrace; especially, to speak evil of maliciously; to dishonor by slanderous reports; to calumniate; to asperse.

To render displeasing; to deprive of comeliness, grace, or perfection; to dishonor. Above those passions that this world deform. Thomson.

Deprived of glory; dishonored. [Obs.] "With thorns degloried." G. Fletcher.

A dishonoring; disgracing. [Obs.] Gauden.

To take away; to put an end; to destroy. [Obs.] 'Tis honor to deprive dishonored life. Shak.

To deflour; to dishonor. [Obs.]

Diminished in value; dishonored; degraded. [R.] Shak.