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Discern

DISCERN, verb transitive s as z. [Latin , to separate or distinguish, Gr.]

1. To separate by the eye, or by the understanding. Hence,

2. To distinguish; to see the difference between two or more things; to discriminate; as, to discern the blossom-buds from the leaf-buds of plants.

DISCERN thou what is thine--Genesis 31:32.

3. To make the difference.

For nothing else discerns the virtue or the vice.

4. To discover; to see; to distinguish by the eye.

I discerned among the youths, a young man void of understanding. Proverbs 7:7.

5. To discover by the intellect; to distinguish; hence, to have knowledge of; to judge.

So is my lord the king to discern good and bad. 2 Samuel 14:17.

A wise mans heart discerneth time and judgment. Ecclesiastes 8:5.

DISCERN, verb intransitive

1. To see or understand the difference; to make distinction; as, to discern between good and evil, truth and falsehood.

2. To have judicial cognizance.

Discerned

DISCERNED, participle passive Distinguished; seen; discovered.

Discerner

DISCERNER, noun

1. One who sees, discovers or distinguishes; an observer.

2. One who knows and judges; one who has the power of distinguishing.

He was a great observer and discerner of mens natures and humors.

3. That which distinguishes; or that which causes to understand.

The word of God is quick and powerful--a discerner of the thoughts and intents of the heart. Hebrews 4:12.

Discernible

DISCERNIBLE, adjective That may be seen distinctly; discoverable by the eye or the understanding; distinguishable. A star is discernible by the eye; the identity or difference of ideas is discernible by the understanding.

Discernibleness

DISCERNIBLENESS, noun Visibleness.

Discernibly

DISCERNIBLY, adverb In a manner to be discerned, seen or discovered; visibly.

Discerning

DISCERNING, participle present tense

1. Distinguishing; seeing; discovering; knowing; judging.

2. adjective Having power to discern; capable of seeing, discriminating, knowing and judging; sharp-sighted; penetrating; acute; as a discerning man or mind.

DISCERNING, noun The act of discerning; discernment.

Discerningly

DISCERNINGLY, adverb With discernment; acutely; with judgment; skillfully.

Discernment

DISCERNMENT, noun The act of discerning; also, the power or faculty of the mind, by which it distinguishes one thing from another, as truth from falsehood, virtue from vice; acuteness of judgment; power of perceiving differences of things or ideas, and their relations and tendencies. The errors of youth often proceed from the want of discernment

Discerp

DISCERP, verb transitive [Latin] To tear in pieces; to separate. [Not used.]

Discerpibility

DISCERPIBILITY, noun Capability or liableness to be torn asunder or disunited.

Discerpible

DISCERPIBLE, adjective [Latin , to seize, to tear. In some dictionaries it is written discerptible, on the authority of Glanville and More; and error indeed, but of little consequence, as the word is rarely or never used.] That may be torn asunder; separable; capable of being disunited by violence.

Discerption

DISCERPTION, noun The act of pulling to pieces, or of separating the parts.

Discession

DISCESSION, noun [Latin] Departure. [Not used.]

Discharge

DISCHARGE, verb transitive

1. To unload, as a ship; to take out, as a cargo; applied both to the ship and the loading. We say, to discharge a ship; but more generally, to discharge a cargo or the lading of the ship.

2. To free from any load or burden; to throw off or exonerate; as, discharge of business.

3. To throw off a load or charge; to let fly; to shoot; applied to fire-arms; as, to dis-charge a pistol or a cannon; or to discharge a ball or grape-shot.

4. To pay; as, to discharge a debt, a bond, a note.

5. To send away, as a creditor by payment of what is due to him. He discharge his creditors.

6. To free from claim or demand; to give an acquittance to, or a receipt in full, as to a debtor. The creditor discharged his debtor.

7. To free from an obligation; as, to discharge a man from further duty or service; to discharge a surety.

8. To clear from an accusation or crime; to acquit; to absolve; to set free; with of; as, to discharge a man of all blame.

9. To throw off or out; to let fly; to give vent to; as, to discharge a horrible oath; to discharge fury or vengeance.

10. To perform or execute, as a duty or office considered as a charge. One man discharges the office of a sheriff; another that of a priest. We are all bound to discharge the duties of piety, of benevolence and charity.

11. To divest of an office or employment; to dismiss from service; as, to discharge a steward or a servant; to discharge a soldier or seaman; to discharge a jury.

12. To dismiss; to release; to send away from any business or appointment.

DISCHARGE your powers to their several counties.

13. To emit or send out; as, an ulcer discharges pus; a pipe discharges water.

14. To release; to liberate from confinement; as, to discharge a prisoner.

15. To put away; to remove; to clear from; to destroy. In general, to throw off any load or incumbrance; to free or clear.

DISCHARGE, verb intransitive To break up.

The cloud, if it were oily or fatty, would not discharge

DISCHARGE, noun

1. An unloading, as of a ship; as the discharge of a cargo.

2. A throwing out; vent; emission; applied to a fluid, a flowing or issuing out, or a throwing out; as the discharge of water from a spring, or from a spout; applied to fire-arms, an explosion; as a discharge of cannon.

3. That which is thrown out; matter emitted; as a thin serous discharge; a purulent discharge

4. Dismission from office or service; or the writing which evidences the dismission. The general, the soldier, obtains a discharge

5. Release from obligation, debt or penalty; or the writing which is evidence of it; an acquittance; as, the debtor has a discharge

6. Absolution from a crime or accusation; acquittance.

7. Ransom; liberation; price paid for deliverance.

8. Performance; execution; applied to an office, trust or duty. A good man is faithful in the discharge of his duties, public and private.

9. Liberation; release from imprisonment or other confinement.

10. Exemption; escape.

There is no discharge in that war. Ecclesiastes 8:8.

11. Payment, as of a debt.

Discharged

DISCHARGED, participle passive Unloaded; let off; shot; thrown out; dismissed from service; paid; released; acquitted; freed from debt or penalty; liberated; performed; executed.

Discharger

DISCHARGER, noun

1. He that discharges in any manner.

2. One who fires a gun.

3. In electricity, an instrument for discharging a Leyden phial, jar, etc., by opening a communication between the two surfaces.

Discharging

DISCHARGING, participle passive Unlading; letting fly; shooting; throwing out; emiting; dismissing from service; paying; releasing from debt, obligation or claim; acquitting; liberating; performing; executing.

Dischurch

DISCHURCH, verb transitive To deprive of the rank of a church.

Discide

DISCIDE, verb transitive To divide; to cut in pieces. [Not used.]

Discinct

DISCINCT, adjective Ungirded.

Discind

DISCIND, verb transitive To cut in two. [Not used.]

Disciple

DISCIPLE, noun [Latin , to learn.]

1. A learner; a scholar; one who receives or professes to receive instruction from another; as the disciples of Plato.

2. A follower; an adherent to the doctrines of another. Hence the constant attendants of Christ were called his disciples; and hence all Christians are called his disciples, as they profess to learn and receive his doctrines and precepts.

DISCIPLE, verb transitive

1. To teach; to train, or bring up.

2. To make disciples of; to convert to doctrines or principles.

This authority he employed in sending missionaries to disciple all nations.

3. To punish; to discipline. [Not in use.]

Disciple-Like

DISCIPLE-LIKE, adjective Becoming a disciple.

Discipled

DISCIPLED, participle passive Taught; trained; brought up; made a disciple.

Discipleship

DISCIPLESHIP, noun The state of a disciple or follower in doctrines and precepts.

Disciplinable

DISCIPLINABLE, adjective [See Discipline.]

1. Capable of instruction, and improvement in learning.

2. That may be subjected to discipline; as a disciplinable offense, in church government.

3. Subject or liable to discipline, as the member of a church.

Disciplinableness

DISCIPLINABLENESS, noun

1. Capacity of receiving instruction by education.

2. The state of being subject to discipline.

Disciplinant

DISCIPLINANT, noun One of a religious order, so called from their practice of scourging themselves, or other rigid discipline.

Disciplinarian

DISCIPLINARIAN, adjective Pertaining to discipline.

DISCIPLINARIAN, noun One who disciplines; one versed in rules, principles and practice, and who teaches them with precision; particularly, one who instructs in military and naval tactics and maneuvers. It is chiefly used in the latter sense, and especially for one who is well versed in, or teaches with exactness, military exercises and evolutions.

2. A puritan or presbyterian; so called from his rigid adherence to religious discipline. [I believe not now used.]

Disciplinary

DISCIPLINARY, adjective

1. Pertaining to discipline; intended for discipline or government; promoting discipline; as, certain canons of the church are disciplinary

2. Relating to a regular course of education; intended for instruction.

The evils of life, pain, sickness, losses, sorrows, dangers and disappointments, are disciplinary and remedial.

Discipline

DISCIPLINE, noun [Latin , to learn.]

1. Education; instruction; cultivation and improvement, comprehending instruction in arts, sciences, correct sentiments, morals and manners, and due subordination to authority.

2. Instruction and government, comprehending the communication of knowledge and the regulation of practice; as military discipline which includes instruction in manual exercise, evolutions and subordination.

3. Rule of government; method of regulating principles and practice; as the discipline prescribed for the church.

4. Subjection to laws, rules, order, precepts or regulations; as, the troops are under excellent discipline; the passions should be kept under strict discipline

5. Correction; chastisement; punishment intended to correct crimes or errors; as the discipline of the strap.

6. In ecclesiastical affairs, the execution of the laws by which the church is governed, and infliction of the penalties enjoined against offenders, who profess the religion of Jesus Christ.

7. Chastisement or bodily punishment inflicted on a delinquent in the Romish Church; or that chastisement or external mortification which a religious person inflicts on himself.

DISCIPLINE, verb transitive

1. To instruct or educate; to inform the mind; to prepare by instructing in correct principles and habits; as, to discipline youth for a profession, or for future usefulness.

2. To instruct and govern; to teach rules and practice, and accustom to order and subordination; as, to discipline troops or an army.

3. To correct; to chastise; to punish.

4. To execute the laws of the church on offenders, with a view to bring them to repentance and reformation of life.

5. To advance and prepare by instruction.

Disciplined

DISCIPLINED, participle passive Instructed; educated; subjected to rules and regulations; corrected; chastised; punished; admonished.

Disciplining

DISCIPLINING, participle passive Instructing; educating; subjecting to order and subordination; correcting; chastising; admonishing; punishing.

Disclaim

DISCLAIM, verb transitive [dis and claim.]

1. To disown; to disavow; to deny the possession of; to reject as not belonging to ones self. A man disclaims all knowledge of a particular transaction; he disclaims every pretension to eloquence; he disclaims nay right to interfere in the affairs of his neighbor; he disclaims all pretensions to military skill. It is opposed to claim or challenge.

2. To renounce; to reject; as, to disclaim the authority of the pope.

3. To deny all claim. A tenant may disclaim to hold of his lord.

DISCLAIM, verb intransitive To disavow all part or share. [Unusual.]

Nature disclaims in thee.

Disclaimation

DISCLAIMATION, noun The act of disclaiming; a disavowing. [Not used.]

Disclaimed

DISCLAIMED, participle passive Disowned; disavowed; rejected; denied.

Disclaimer

DISCLAIMER, noun

1. A person who disclaims, disowns or renounces.

2. In law, an express or implied denial by a tenant that he holds an estate of his lord; a denial of tenure, by plea or otherwise.

Disclaiming

DISCLAIMING, participle present tense Disowning; disavowing; denying; renouncing.

Disclose

DISCLOSE, verb transitive discloze. [dis and close; Latin See Close.]

1. To uncover; to open; to remove a cover from, and lay open to the view.

The shells being broken, the stone included in them is disclosed.

2. To discover; to lay open to the view; to bring to light. Events have disclosed the designs of the ministry.

3. To reveal by words; to tell; to utter; as, to disclose the secret thoughts of the heart.

4. To make known; to show in any manner. A blush may disclose a secret passion in the breast.

5. To open; to hatch. [Not used.]

The ostrich layeth her eggs under sand, where the heat of the sun discloseth them.

DISCLOSE, noun Discovery.

Disclosed

DISCLOSED, participle passive Uncovered; opened to view; made known; revealed; told; uttered.

Discloser

DISCLOSER, noun One who discloses or reveals.

Disclosing

DISCLOSING, participle present tense Uncovering; opening to view; revealing; making known; telling.

Disclosure

DISCLOSURE, noun Disclozhur.

1. The act of disclosing; an uncovering and opening to view; discovery.

2. The act of revealing; utterance of what was secret; a telling.

3. The act of making known what was concealed.

4. That which is disclosed or made known.

Disclusion

DISCLUSION, noun Discluzhun. [Latin] An emission; a throwing out. [Little used.]

Discoast

DISCOAST, verb intransitive To depart from; to quit the coast. [Not used.]

Discoherent

DISCOHERENT, adjective Incoherent. The latter is generally used.

Discoid

DISCOID, noun Something in form of a discus or disk.

Discoidal

DISCOID, DISCOIDAL adjective Having the form of a disk. Discoid or discous flowers, are compound flowers, not radiated, but the florets all tubular, as the tansy, southern-wood, etc.

Discolor

DISCOLOR, verb transitive [Latin]

1. To alter the natural hue or color of; to stain; to tinge. A drop of wine will discolor a glass of water; silver is discolored by sea-water.

2. To change any color, natural or artificial; to alter a color partially. It differs from color and dye, in denoting a partial alteration, rather than an entire change of color.

3. Figuratively, to alter the complexion; to change the appearance; as, to discolor ideas.

Discoloration

DISCOLORATION, noun

1. The act of altering the color; a staining.

2. Alteration of color; stain; as spots and discolorations of the skin.

3. Alteration of complexion or appearance.

Discolored

DISCOLORED, participle passive

1. Altered in color; stained.

2. adjective Variegated; being of divers colors.

Discoloring

DISCOLORING, participle present tense Altering the color of hue; staining; changing the complexion.

Discomfit

DISCOMFIT, verb transitive [Latin , to fasten, to nail; to fix.] To rout; to defeat; to scatter in fight; to cause to flee; to vanquish.

Joshua discomfited Amalek and his people with the edge of the sword. Exodus 17:13.

He, fugitive, declined superior strength, discomfited, pursued.

DISCOMFIT, noun Rout; dispersion; defeat; overthrow.

Discomfited

DISCOMFITED, participle passive Routed; defeated; overthrown.

Discomfiting

DISCOMFITING, participle present tense Routing; defeating.

Discomfiture

DISCOMFITURE, noun Rout; defeat in battle; dispersion; overthrow.

Every mans sword was against his fellow, and there was a very great discomfiture 1 Samuel 14:20.

2. Defeat; frustration; disappointment.

Discomfort

DISCOMFORT, noun [dis and comfort.] Uneasiness; disturbance of peace; pain; grief; inquietude.

DISCOMFORT, verb transitive To disturb peace or happiness; to make uneasy; to pain; to grieve; to sadden; to deject.

Discomfortable

DISCOMFORTABLE, adjective

1. Causing uneasiness; unpleasant; giving pain; making sad. [Little used.]

2. Uneasy; melancholy; refusing comfort. [Not used.] [Instead of this word, uncomfortable is used.]

Discomforted

DISCOMFORTED, participle passive Made uneasy; disturbed; pained; grieved.

Discomforting

DISCOMFORTING, participle present tense Disturbing peace and happiness; making uneasy; grieving.

Discommend

DISCOMMEND, verb transitive [dis and commend.] To blame; to censure; to mention with disapprobation.

I do not discommend the lofty style in tragedy.

Discommendable

DISCOMMENDABLE, adjective Blamable; censurable; deserving disapprobation.

Discommendableness

DISCOMMENDABLENESS, noun Blamableness; the quality of being worthy of disapprobation.

Discommendation

DISCOMMENDATION, noun Blame; censure; reproach.

Discommender

DISCOMMENDER, noun One who discommends; a dispraiser.

Discommending

DISCOMMENDING, participle present tense Blaming; censuring.

Discommode

DISCOMMODE, verb transitive To put to inconvenience; to incommode; to molest; to trouble. [Discommodate is not used.]

Discommoded

DISCOMMODED, participle passive Put to inconvenience; molested; incommoded.

Discommoding

DISCOMMODING, participle present tense Putting to inconvenience; giving trouble to.

Discommodious

DISCOMMODIOUS, adjective Inconvenient; troublesome.

Discommodity

DISCOMMODITY, noun Inconvenience; trouble; hurt; disadvantage.

Discommon

DISCOMMON, verb transitive [dis and common.]

1. To appropriate common land; to separate and inclose common.

2. To deprive of the privileges of a place.

Discomplexion

DISCOMPLEXION, verb transitive To change the complexion or color. [Not used.]

Discompose

DISCOMPOSE, verb transitive discompoze. [dis and compose.]

1. To unsettle; to disorder; to disturb; applied to things.

2. To disturb peace and quietness; to agitate; to ruffle; applied to the temper or mind; expressing less agitation than fret and vex, or expressing vexation with decorum.

3. To displace; to discard. [Not in use.]

Discomposed

DISCOMPOSED, participle passive Unsettled; disordered; ruffled; agitated; disturbed.

Discomposing

DISCOMPOSING, participle present tense Unsettling; putting out of order; ruffling; agitating; disturbing tranquility.

Discomposition

DISCOMPOSITION, noun Inconsistency. [Not used.]

Discomposure

DISCOMPOSURE, noun Discompozhur. Disorder; agitation; disturbance; perturbation; as discomposure of mind.

Disconcert

DISCONCERT, verb transitive [dis and concert.]

1. To break or interrupt any order, plan or harmonious scheme; to defeat; to frustrate. The emperor disconcerted the plans of his enemy. Their schemes were disconcerted.

2. To unsettle the mind; to discompose; to disturb; to confuse. An unexpected question may disconcert the ablest advocate in his argument.

Disconcerted

DISCONCERTED, participle passive Broken; interrupted; disordered; defeated; unsettled; discomposed; confused.

Disconcerting

DISCONCERTING, participle present tense Disordering; defeating; discomposing; disturbing.

Disconcertion

DISCONCERTION, noun The act of disconcerting.

Disconformity

DISCONFORMITY, noun [dis and conformity.] Want of agreement or conformity; inconsistency.

Discongruity

DISCONGRUITY, noun [dis and congruity.] Want of congruity; incongruity; disagreement; inconsistency.

Disconnect

DISCONNECT, verb transitive [dis and connect.] To separate; to disunite; to dissolve connection.

The commonwealth would, in a few generations, crumble away, be disconnected into the dust and powder of individuality--

This restriction disconnects bank paper and the precious metals.

Disconnected

DISCONNECTED, participle passive Separated; disunited. This word is not synonymous with unconnected, though often confounded with it. disconnected implies a previous connection; unconnected does not necessarily imply any previous union.

Disconnecting

DISCONNECTING, participle present tense Separating; disuniting.

Disconnection

DISCONNECTION, noun The act of separating, or state of being disunited; separation; want of union.

Nothing was therefore to be left in all the subordinate members, but weakness, disconnection and confusion.

Disconsent

DISCONSENT, verb intransitive [dis and consent.] To differ; to disagree; not to consent.

Disconsolate

DISCONSOLATE, adjective [dis and Latin ] [See Console.]

1. Destitute of comfort or consolation; sorrowful; hopeless or not expecting comfort; sad; dejected; melancholy; as a parent, bereaved of an only child and disconsolate

2. Not affording comfort; cheerless; as the disconsolate darkness of a winters night.

Disconsolately

DISCONSOLATELY, adverb In a disconsolate manner; without comfort.

Disconsolateness

DISCONSOLATENESS, noun The state of being disconsolate or comfortless.

Disconsolation

DISCONSOLATION, noun Want of comfort.

Discontent

DISCONTENT, noun [dis and content.] Want of content; uneasiness or inquietude of mind; dissatisfaction at any present state of things.

DISCONTENT, adjective Uneasy; dissatisfied.

DISCONTENT, verb transitive To make uneasy at the present state; to dissatisfy.

Discontented

DISCONTENTED, participle passive or adjective Uneasy in mind; dissatisfied; unquiet; as, discontented citizens make bad subjects.

Discontentedly

DISCONTENTEDLY, adverb In a discontented manner or mood.

Discontentedness

DISCONTENTEDNESS, noun Uneasiness of mind; inquietude; dissatisfaction.

Discontenting

DISCONTENTING, adjective Giving uneasiness.

Discontentment

DISCONTENTMENT, noun The state of being uneasy in mind; uneasiness; inquietude; discontent.

Discontinuance

DISCONTINUANCE, noun [See Discontinue.]

1. Want of continuance; cessation; intermission; interruption of continuance; as a discontinuance of conversation or intercourse.

2. Want of continued connection or cohesion of parts; want of union; disruption.

3. In law, a breaking off or interruption of possession, as where a tenant in tail makes a feoffment in fee-simple, or for the life of the feoffee, or in tail, which he has not power to do; in this case, the entry of the feoffee is lawful, during the life of the feoffor; but if he retains possession after the death of the feoffor, it is an injury which is termed a discontinuance the legal estate of the heir in tail being discontinued, till a recovery can be had in law.

4. discontinuance of a suit, is when a plaintiff leaves a chasm in the proceedings in his cause, as by not continuing the process regularly from day to day; in which case the defendant is not bound to attend. Formerly the demise of the king caused a discontinuance of all suits; but this is remedied by statute 1. Ed. VI.

Discontinuation

DISCONTINUATION, noun Breach or interruption of continuity; disruption of parts; separation of parts which form a connected series.

Discontinue

DISCONTINUE, verb transitive [dis and continue.]

1. To leave off; to cause to cease, as a practice or habit; to stop; to put an end to; as, to discontinue the intemperate use of spirits. Inveterate customs are not discontinued without inconvenience.

The depredations on our commerce were not to be discontinued.

2. To break off; to interrupt.

3. To cease to take or receive; as, to discontinue a daily prayer.

DISCONTINUE, verb intransitive

1. To cease; to leave the possession, or lose an established or long enjoyed right.

Thyself shalt discontinue from thine heritage. Jeremiah 17:4.

2. To lose the cohesion of parts; to suffer disruption or separation of substance. [Little used.]

Discontinued

DISCONTINUED, participle passive Left off; interrupted; broken off.

Discontinuer

DISCONTINUER, noun One who discontinues a rule or practice.

Discontinuing

DISCONTINUING, participle present tense Ceasing; interrupting; breaking off.

Discontinuity

DISCONTINUITY, noun Disunion of parts; want of cohesion.

Discontinuous

DISCONTINUOUS, adjective

1. Broken off; interrupted.

2. Separated; wide; gaping.

Disconvenience

DISCONVENIENCE, noun [dis and convenience.] Incongruity; disagreement. [Little used.]

Disconvenient

DISCONVENIENT, adjective Incongruous.

Discord

DISCORD, noun [Latin]

1. Disagreement among persons or things. Between persons, difference of opinions; variance; opposition; contention; strife; any disagreement which produces angry passions, contest, disputes, litigation or war. discord may exist between families, parties and nations.

2. Disagreement; want of order; a clashing.

All discord harmony not understood.

3. In music, disagreement of sounds; dissonance; a union of sounds which is inharmonious, grating and disagreeable to the ear; or an interval whose extremes do not coalesce. Thus the second and the seventh, when sounded together, make a discord The term discord is applied to each of the two sounds which form the dissonance, and to the interval; but more properly to the mixed sound of dissonant tones. It is opposed to concord and harmony.

DISCORD, verb intransitive To disagree; to jar; to clash; not to suit; not to be coincident. [Not in use.]

Discordance

DISCORDANCE, DISCORDANCY, noun [Latin] Disagreement; opposition; inconsistency; as a discordance of opinions, or of sounds.

Discordancy

DISCORDANCE, DISCORDANCY noun [Latin] Disagreement; opposition; inconsistency; as a discordance of opinions, or of sounds.

Discordant

DISCORDANT, adjective [Latin]

1. Disagreeing; incongruous; contradictory; being at variance; as discordant opinions; discordant rules or principles.

2. Opposite; contrarious; not coincident; as the discordant attractions of comets, or of different planets.

3. Dissonant; not in unison; not harmonious; not accordant harsh; jarring; as discordant notes or sounds.

Discordantly

DISCORDANTLY, adverb Dissonantly; in a discordant manner; inconsistently; in a manner to jar or clash; in disagreement with another, or with itself.

Discordful

DISCORDFUL, adjective Quarrelsome; contentious.

Discounsel

DISCOUNSEL, verb transitive To dissuade. [Not in use.]

Discount

DISCOUNT, noun [See Count. Literally, a counting back or from.]

1. A sum deducted for prompt or advanced payment; an allowance or deduction from a sum due, or from a credit; a certain rate per cent deducted from the credit price of goods sold, on account of prompt payment; or any deduction from the customary price, or from a sum due or to be due at a future time. Thus the merchant who gives a credit of three months will deduct a certain rate per cent for payment in hand, and the holder of a note or bill of exchange will deduct a certain rate per cent of the amount of the note or bill for advanced payment, which deduction is called a discount

2. Among bankers, the deduction of a sum for advanced payment; particularly, the deduction of the interest on a sum lent, at the time of lending. The discounts at banking institutions are usually the amount of legal interest paid by the borrower, and deducted from the sum borrowed, at the commencement of the credit.

3. The sum deducted or refunded; as, the discount was five per cent.

4. The act of discounting. A note is lodged in the bank for discount The banks have suspended discounts.

DISCOUNT, verb transitive

1. To deduct a certain sum or rate per cent from the principal sum. Merchants discount five or six per cent, for prompt or for advanced payment.

2. To lend or advance the amount of, deducting the interest or other rate per cent from the principal, at the time of the loan or advance. The banks discount notes and bills of exchange, on good security.

The first rule--to discount only unexceptionable paper.

DISCOUNT, verb intransitive To lend or make a practice of lending money, deducting the interest at the time of the loan. The banks discount for sixty or ninety days, sometimes for longer terms.

Discount-Day

DISCOUNT-DAY, noun The day of the week on which a bank discounts notes and bills.

Discountable

DISCOUNTABLE, adjective That may be discounted. Certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank. A bill may be discountable for more than sixty days.

Discounted

DISCOUNTED, participle passive

1. Deducted from a principal sum; paid back; refunded or allowed; as, the sum of five per cent was discounted

2. Having the amount lent on discount or deduction of a sum in advance; as, the bill was discounted for sixty days.

Discountenance

DISCOUNTENANCE, verb transitive [dis and countenance.]

1. To abash; to ruffle or discompose the countenance; to put to shame; to put out of countenance. [Not used.]

How would one look from his majestic brow--Discountenance her despised.

2. To discourage; to check; to restrain by frowns, censure, arguments, opposition, or cold treatment. The good citizen will discountenance vice by every lawful means.

DISCOUNTENANCE, noun Cold treatment; unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.

He thought a little discountenance on those persons would suppress that spirit.

Discountenanced

DISCOUNTENANCED, participle passive Abashed; discouraged; checked; frowned on.

Discountenancer

DISCOUNTENANCER, noun One who discourages by cold treatment, frowns, censure or expression of disapprobation; one who checks or depresses by unfriendly regards.

Discountenancing

DISCOUNTENANCING, participle present tense Abashing; discouraging; checking by disapprobation or unfriendly regards.

Discounter

DISCOUNTER, noun One who advances money on discounts.

Discounting

DISCOUNTING, participle present tense

1. Deducting a sum for prompt or advanced payment.

2. Lending on discount.

DISCOUNTING, noun The act or practice of lending money on discounts.

The profitable business of a bank consists in discounting

Discourage

DISCOURAGE, verb transitive discurage. [dis and courage. See Courage.]

1. To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits; to deject; to deprive of confidence.

Fathers, provoke not your children, lest they be discouraged. Colossians 3:21.

2. To deter from any thing; with from.

Why discourage ye the hearts of the children of Israel from going over into the land which the Lord hath given them? Numbers 32:7.

3. To attempt to repress or prevent; to dissuade from; as, to discourage an effort.

Discouraged

DISCOURAGED, participle passive Discuraged. Disheartened; deprived of courage or confidence; depressed in spirits; dejected; checked.

Discouragement

DISCOURAGEMENT, noun Discuragement.

1. The act of disheartening, or depriving of courage; the act of deterring or dissuading from an undertaking; the act of depressing confidence.

2. That which destroys or abates courage; that which depresses confidence or hope; that which deters or tends to deter from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of any thing. Evil examples are great discouragements to virtue. The revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement

Discourager

DISCOURAGER, noun Discurager. One who discourages; one who disheartens, or depresses the courage; one who impresses or fear of success; one who dissuades from an undertaking.

Discouraging

DISCOURAGING, participle present tense Discuraging.

1. Disheartening; depressing courage.

2. adjective Tending to dishearten, or to depress the courage; as discouraging prospects.

Discourse

DISCOURSE, noun Discors. [Latin , to run.]

1. The act of the undertaking, by which it passes from premises to consequences; the act which connects propositions, and deduces conclusions from them. [This sense is now obsolete.]

2. Literally, a running over a subject in speech; hence, a communication of thoughts by words, either to individuals, to companies, or to public assemblies. discourse to an individual or to a small company is called conversation or talk; mutual interchange or thoughts; mutual intercourse of language. It is applied to the familiar communication of thoughts by an individual, or to the mutual communication of two or more. We say, I was pleased with his discourse and he heard our discourse

The vanquished party with the victors joined, nor wanted sweet discourse the banquet of the mind.

3. Effusion of language; speech.

4. A written treatise; a formal dissertation; as the discourse of Plutarch on garrulity; of Cicero on old age.

5. A sermon, uttered or written. We say, an extemporaneous discourse or a written discourse

DISCOURSE, verb intransitive

1. To talk; to converse; to but it expresses rather more formality than talk. He discoursed with us an hour on the events of the war. We discoursed together on our mutual concerns.

2. To communicate thoughts or ideas in a formal manner; to treat upon in a solemn, set manner; as, to discourse on the properties of the circle; the preacher discoursed on the nature and effects of faith.

3. To reason; to pass from premises to consequences.

DISCOURSE, verb transitive To treat of; to talk over; to discuss. [Not used.]

Let use discourse our fortunes.

Discourser

DISCOURSER, noun

1. One who discourses; a speaker; a haranguer.

2. The writer of a treatise or dissertation.

Discoursing

DISCOURSING, participle present tense Talking; conversing; preaching; discussing; treating at some length or in a formal manner.

Discoursive

DISCOURSIVE, adjective

1. Reasoning; passing from premises to consequences.

2. Containing dialogue or conversation; interlocutory.

The epic is interlaced with dialogue or discoursive scenes.

Discourteous

DISCOURTEOUS, adjective Discurteous. [dis and courteous.] Uncivil; rude; uncomplaisant; wanting in good manners; as discourteous knight.

Discourteously

DISCOURTEOUSLY, adverb Discurteously. In a rude or uncivil manner; with incivility.

Discourtesy

DISCOURTESY, noun Discurtesy. [dis and courtesy.] Incivility; rudeness of behavior or language; ill manners; act of disrespect.

Be calm in arguing; for fierceness makes error a fault, and truth discourtesy

Discourtship

DISCOURTSHIP, noun Want of respect.

Discous

DISCOUS, adjective [Latin] Broad; flat; wide; used of the middle plain and flat part of some flowers.

Discover

DISCOVER, verb transitive [See Cover.]

1. Literally, to uncover; to remove a covering. Isaiah 22:8.

2. To lay open to the view; to disclose; to show; to make visible; to expose to view something before unseen or concealed.

Go, draw aside the curtains and discover the several caskets to this noble prince.

He discovereth deep things out of darkness. Job 12:22.

Law can discover sin, but not remove.

3. To reveal; to make known.

We will discover ourselves to them. 1 Samuel 14:8.

DISCOVER not a secret to another. Proverbs 25:9.

4. To espy; to have the first sight of; as, a man at mast-head discovered land.

When we had discovered Cyprus, we left it on the left hand. Acts 21:3.

5. To find out; to obtain the first knowledge of; to come to the knowledge of something sought or before unknown. Columbus discovered the variation of the magnetic needle. We often discover our mistakes, when too late to prevent their evil effects.

6. To detect; as, we discovered the artifice; the thief, finding himself discovered, attempted to escape.

DISCOVER differs from invent. We discover what before existed, though to us unknown; we invent what did not before exist.

Discoverable

DISCOVERABLE, adjective

1. That may be discovered; that may be brought to light, or exposed to view.

2. That may be seen; as, many minute animals are discoverable only by the help of the microscope.

3. That may be found out, or made known; as, the scriptures reveal many things not discoverable by the light of reason.

4. Apparent; visible; exposed to view.

Nothing discoverable in the lunar surface is ever covered.

Discovered

DISCOVERED, participle passive Uncovered; disclosed to view; laid open; revealed; espied or first seen; found out; detected.

Discoverer

DISCOVERER, noun

1. One who discovers; one who first sees or espies; one who finds out, or first comes to the knowledge of something.

2. A scout; an explorer.

Discovering

DISCOVERING, participle present tense Uncovering; disclosing to view; laying open; revealing; making known; espying; finding out; detecting.

Discoverture

DISCOVERTURE, noun A state of being released from coverture; freedom of a woman from the coverture of a husband.

Discovery

DISCOVERY, noun

1. The action of disclosing to view, or bringing to light; as, by the discovery of a plot, the public peace is preserved.

2. Disclosure; a making known; as, a bankrupt is bound to make a full discovery of his estate and effects.

3. The action of finding something hidden; as the discovery of lead or silver in the earth.

4. The act of finding out, or coming to the knowledge of; as the discovery of truth; the discovery of magnetism.

5. The act of espying; first sight of; as the discovery of America by Columbus, or of the Continent by Cabot.

6. That which is discovered, found out or revealed; that which is first brought to light, seen or known. The properties of the magnet were an important discovery Redemption from sin was a discovery beyond the power of human philosophy.

7. In dramatic poetry, the unraveling of a plot, or the manner of unfolding the plot or fable of a comedy or tragedy.

Discredit

DISCREDIT, noun [See the Verb.]

1. Want of credit or good reputation; some degree of disgrace or reproach; disesteem; applied to persons or things. Frauds in manufactures bring them into discredit

It is the duty of every Christian to be concerned for the reputation or discredit his life may bring on his profession.

2. Want of belief, trust or confidence; disbelief; as, later accounts have brought the story into discredit

DISCREDIT, verb transitive

1. To disbelieve; to give no credit to; not to credit or believe; as, the report is discredited.

2. To deprive of credit or good reputation; to make less reputable or honorable; to bring into disesteem; to bring into some degree of disgrace, or into disrepute.

He least discredits his travels, who returns the same man he went.

Our virtues will be often discredited with the appearance of evil.

3. To deprive of credibility.

Discreditable

DISCREDITABLE, adjective Tending to injure credit; injurious to reputation; disgraceful; disreputable.

Discredited

DISCREDITED, participle passive Disbelieved; brought into disrepute; disgraced.

Discrediting

DISCREDITING, participle present tense Disbelieving; not trusting to; depriving of credit; disgracing.

Discreet

DISCREET, adjective [Latin , Gr. It is sometimes written discrete; the distinction between discreet and discrete are arbitrary, but perhaps not entirely useless. The literal sense is, separate, reserved, wary, hence discerning.]

1. Prudent; wise in avoiding errors or evil, and in selecting the best means to accomplish a purpose; circumspect; cautious; wary; not rash.

It is the discreet man, not the witty, nor the learned, nor the brave, who guides the conversation, and gives measures to society.

Let Pharaoh look out a man discreet and wise. Genesis 41:33.

Discreetly

DISCREETLY, adverb Prudently; circumspectly; cautiously; with nice judgment of what is best to be done or omitted.

Discreetness

DISCREETNESS, noun The quality of being discreet; discretion.

Discrepance

DISCREPANCE, DISCREPANCY, noun [Latin , to give a different sound, to vary, to jar; to creak. See Crepitate.] Difference; disagreement; contrariety; applicable to facts or opinions.

Discrepancy

DISCREPANCE, DISCREPANCY noun [Latin , to give a different sound, to vary, to jar; to creak. See Crepitate.] Difference; disagreement; contrariety; applicable to facts or opinions.

There is no real DISCREPANCY between these tow genealogies.

Discrepant

DISCREPANT, adjective Different; disagreeing; contrary.

Discrete

DISCRETE, adjective [Latin See Discreet.]

1. Separate; distinct; disjunct. discrete proportion is when the ratio of two or more pairs of numbers or quantities is the same, but there is not the same proportion between all the numbers; as 3:6::8:16, 3 bearing the same proportion to 6, as 8 does to 16. But 3 is not to 6 as 6 is to 8. It is thus opposed to continued or continual proportion, as 3:6::12:24.

2. Disjunctive; as, I resign my life, but not my honor, is a discrete proposition.

DISCRETE, verb transitive To separate; to discontinue. [Not used.]

Discretion

DISCRETION, noun [L, a separating. See Discreet.]

1. Prudence, or knowledge and prudence; that discernment which enables a person to judge critically of what is correct and proper, united with caution; nice discernment and judgment, directed by circumspection, and primarily regarding ones own conduct.

A good man--will guide his affairs with discretion Psalms 112:5.

My son, keep sound wisdom and discretion Proverbs 3:21.

2. Liberty or power of acting without other control than ones own judgment; as, the management of affairs was left to the discretion of the prince; he is left to his own discretion Hence,

To surrender at discretion is to surrender without stipulation or terms, and commit ones self entirely to the power of the conqueror.

3. Disjunction; separation. [Not much used.]

Discretional

DISCRETIONARY, DISCRETIONAL adjective Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; that is to be directed or managed by discretion only. Thus, the President of the United States is, in certain cases, invested with discretionary powers, to act according to circumstances.

Discretionally

DISCRETIONARILY, DISCRETIONALLY adverb At discretion; according to discretion.

Discretionarily

DISCRETIONARILY, DISCRETIONALLY, adverb At discretion; according to discretion.

Discretionary

DISCRETIONARY, DISCRETIONAL, adjective Left to discretion; unrestrained except by discretion or judgment; that is to be directed or managed by discretion only. Thus, the President of the United States is, in certain cases, invested with discretionary powers, to act according to circumstances.