scomfit

English

Alternative forms

• scomfyte (14th-16th centuries)

Etymology

Clipping of discomfit.

Verb

scomfit (third-person singular simple present scomfits, present participle scomfiting, simple past and past participle scomfit or scomfited)

1. (obsolete) To defeat, vanquish.
   • 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, “xxj”, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV (in Middle English):

     For now here was one knyȝt scomfyte x knyghtes

     (please add an English translation of this quotation)

Noun

scomfit (uncountable)

1. (obsolete) discomfiture

Anagrams

• comfits