DPage 205
- English Word Discorporate Definition Deprived of the privileges or form of a body corporate.
- English Word Discorrespondent Definition Incongruous.
- English Word Discosent Definition To differ; to disagree; to dissent.
- English Word Discost Definition Same as Discoast.
- English Word Discounsel Definition To dissuade.
- English Word Discount Definition To deduct from an account, debt, charge, and the like; to make an abatement of; as, merchants sometimes discount five or six per cent for prompt payment of bills.
- English Word Discount Definition To lend money upon, deducting the discount or allowance for interest; as, the banks discount notes and bills of exchange.
- English Word Discount Definition To take into consideration beforehand; to anticipate and form conclusions concerning (an event).
- English Word Discount Definition To leave out of account; to take no notice of.
- English Word Discount Definition To lend, or make a practice of lending, money, abating the discount; as, the discount for sixty or ninety days.
- English Word Discount Definition A counting off or deduction made from a gross sum on any account whatever; an allowance upon an account, debt, demand, price asked, and the like; something taken or deducted.
- English Word Discount Definition A deduction made for interest, in advancing money upon, or purchasing, a bill or note not due; payment in advance of interest upon money.
- English Word Discount Definition The rate of interest charged in discounting.
- English Word Discountable Definition Capable of being, or suitable to be, discounted; as, certain forms are necessary to render notes discountable at a bank.
- English Word Discounted Definition of Discount
- English Word Discountenance Definition To ruffle or discompose the countenance of; to put of countenance; to put to shame; to abash.
- English Word Discountenance Definition To refuse to countenance, or give the support of one's approval to; to give one's influence against; to restrain by cold treatment; to discourage.
- English Word Discountenance Definition Unfavorable aspect; unfriendly regard; cold treatment; disapprobation; whatever tends to check or discourage.
- English Word Discountenanced Definition of Discountenance
- English Word Discountenancer Definition One who discountenances; one who disfavors.
- English Word Discountenancing Definition of Discountenance
- English Word Discounter Definition One who discounts; a discount broker.
- English Word Discounting Definition of Discount
- English Word Discourage Definition To extinguish the courage of; to dishearten; to depress the spirits of; to deprive of confidence; to deject; -- the opposite of encourage; as, he was discouraged in his undertaking; he need not be discouraged from a like attempt.
- English Word Discourage Definition To dishearten one with respect to; to discountenance; to seek to check by disfavoring; to deter one from; as, they discouraged his efforts.
- English Word Discourage Definition Lack of courage; cowardliness.
- English Word Discourageable Definition Capable of being discouraged; easily disheartened.
- English Word Discouraged Definition of Discourage
- English Word Discouragement Definition The act of discouraging, or the state of being discouraged; depression or weakening of confidence; dejection.
- English Word Discouragement Definition That which discourages; that which deters, or tends to deter, from an undertaking, or from the prosecution of anything; a determent; as, the revolution was commenced under every possible discouragement.