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Discomfit v. t. (past & past part. discomfited; pres. part. discomfiting)

To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat. "And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field."

To break up and frustrate the plans of; to disconcert. "Well, go with me and be not so discomfited."

Synonyms: To defeat; overthrow; overpower; vanquish; conquer; baffle; frustrate; confound; discourage.

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Etymology of 'Discomfit'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Discomfit" Quotes from Famous Books

... an eye witness of some of the phenomena. His point of view is that of an ardent believer in the verity of witchcraft, and his narrative of the Tedworth affair finds place in a treatise designed to discomfit those irreligious persons who maintained the opposite.[B] It is therefore evident that his account of the case is to be regarded as a piece of special pleading, and as such must be received ...

— Historic Ghosts and Ghost Hunters • H. Addington Bruce

... affair Borrow had, not only the approval of Lord William Hervey, but of Count Ofalia also. In all probability the Bible Society has never had, and never will have again, an agent such as Borrow, who on occasion could throw aside the cloak of humility and grasp a two-edged sword with which to discomfit his enemies, and who solemnly chanted the creed of Islam whilst engaged as a Christian missionary. There was something magnificent in his Christianity; it savoured of the Crusades in its pre-Reformation virility. Martyrdom he would accept if absolutely ...

— The Life of George Borrow • Herbert Jenkins

... by permitting it justly, and by directing it wisely towards the good, as I have shown in a manner that appears tolerably intelligible. But as it is here principally that M. Bayle undertakes [183] to discomfit those who maintain that there is nothing in faith which cannot be harmonized with reason, it is also here especially I must show that my dogmas are fortified (to make use of his own allegory) with a rampart, even of reasons, which is able to resist the fire of his strongest batteries. ...

— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz

Words linked to "Discomfit" : embarrass, bewilder, dissolve, anguish, discompose, evoke, afflict, pain, untune, bemuse, disconcert, discombobulate, discomfiture, enervate, unnerve, abash, fire, kindle, faze, hurt