disˈcomfis, -fish, v. Sc.
Forms: pa. pple. and pa. tense 5 discumfyst, 6 -fist, -feist, -comfeist, -fest, -confeist, 9 discomfisht.
[A by-form of discomfit v., a. OF. desconfis- present stem of desconfire (pr. pple. desconfisant, pr. subj. -confise). In early use chiefly in pa. pple. and pa. tense discumfist (cf. F. pret. il desconfist); modern present tense discomfish, also scomfish.]
= discomfit v.
| c 1470 Henry Wallace i. 429 Ane that has discumfyst ws all. 1536 Bellenden Cron. Scot. (1821) I. p. xxvii, Discumfist be thair ennimes. 1549 Compl. Scot. ix. 77 Gedeon, vitht thre hundretht men, discumfeist ane hundretht and tuenty thousant. 1553 Douglas' æneis x. xiv. 24 Ane man was brocht to ground And discomfest [MS. discumfyt] wyth sa grislie ane wound. 1570 Tragedie 264 in Satir. Poems Reform. (1890) 90 Bot we the Langsyde hill befoir thame wan, And..disconfeist thame. 1825–80 Jamieson, Discomfisht, overcome. 1894 Liberal 1 Dec. 72/1 Ye're a puir feckless fushionless discomfisht body. |