disˈcomfiter
Also 6 Sc. discomfatour.
[In early use a. OF. desconfitour (in Godef.); in later, f. discomfit v. + -er1.]
One who or that which discomfits.
| 1528 Lyndesay Dreme 569 The Martyris war as nobyll stalwart Knychtis,—Discomfatouris of creuell battellis thre, The flesche, the warld, the feind. 1820 Milman Fall Jerusalem (1821) 89 What birth So meet and fitting for the great Discomfiter? 1886 Sat. Rev. 24 Apr. 571/1 The discomfiter of Mr. Chamberlain. |