discompt
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English
[edit]Verb
[edit]discompt (third-person singular simple present discompts, present participle discompting, simple past and past participle discompted)
- (archaic) To discount.
- 1662 (indicated as 1663), [Samuel Butler], “[The First Part of Hudibras]”, in Hudibras. The First and Second Parts. […], London: […] John Martyn and Henry Herringman, […], published 1678; republished in A[lfred] R[ayney] Waller, editor, Hudibras: Written in the Time of the Late Wars, Cambridge, Cambridgeshire: University Press, 1905, →OCLC:
- Whachum had neither cross nor pile ,
His plunder was not worth the while ;
All which the conqueror did discompt,
To pay for curing of his rump
References
[edit]“discompt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.