discustom
English
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[edit]discustom (third-person singular simple present discustoms, present participle discustoming, simple past and past participle discustomed)
- (rare) Obsolete form of disaccustom.
- 1605, Guillaume de Salluste Du Bartas, translated by Josuah Sylvester, Bartes: Devine Weekes and Workes, London, page 313:
- If now no more my ſacred rimes diſtil
With Art-leſs eaſe from my diſcuſtom'd quill : […]
- 1618, John Buckeridge, A Sermon Preached before His Maieſty At Whitehall, March 22. 1617., London: […] Iohn Bill, page 161:
- […] I ſhould haue thoght it had bin quite diſcuſtomed;long before Anſelme, but that it was held in life by ſome after Councels: […]
- 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:
- 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.