discompt

English

Verb

discompt (third-person singular simple present discompts, present participle discompting, simple past and past participle discompted)

1. (archaic) To discount.
   • 1662, [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: 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

“discompt”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.