discustom

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A form of disaccustom — To cause (someone) to break a habit or become unaccustomed to something that they were previously accustomed to

Scrabble 14

Meanings

verbdiscustom (third-person singular simple present discustoms, present participle discustoming, simple past and past participle discustomed)

present singular third person discustoms · participle present discustoming · participle past discustomed · past discustomed

  1. obsoleterareObsolete form of disaccustom.

    If now no more my ſacred rimes diſtil With Art-leſs eaſe from my diſcuſtom'd quill : […]

    1605, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Bartes: Devine Weekes and Workes, London, page 313
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    […] I ſhould haue thoght it had bin quite diſcuſtomed;long before Anſelme, but that it was held in life by ſome after Councels: […]

    1618, John Buckeridge, A Sermon Preached before His Maieſty At Whitehall, March 22. 1617., London: […] Iohn Bill, page 161

    World to live upon, and content our ſelves with: to live upon God, and make him our content and ſtay, as if we had no other life nor livelyhood but in him; we are very apt in ſuch a caſe to contract a carnal frame, let go our hold of God, diſcuſtom our ſelves to the exerciſe of Faith, abate and eſtrange our affections from God.

    1671, “Of the Cauſe of Inward Trouble, and how a Chriſtian ſhould behave himſelf when Inward and Outward Troubles meet”, in Samuel Annesley, compiler, The Morning-Exercise at Cripple-Gate, 3rd edition, London: […] T. Milbourn, page 357

Origin

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MLA

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