dishumour
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English
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[edit]Verb
[edit]dishumour (third-person singular simple present dishumours, present participle dishumouring, simple past and past participle dishumoured)
- (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of humour or desire; to put out of humour.
- 1599 (first performance), B. I. [i.e., Ben Jonson], The Comicall Satyre of Euery Man out of His Humor. […], London: […] [Adam Islip] for William Holme, […], published 1600, →OCLC, Act V, scene ii, signature P ij, recto:
- O, how I do feed vpon this now, and fat my ſelf? here were a couple vnexpectedly diſhumor'd: […]
Noun
[edit]dishumour (uncountable)
Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “dishumour”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)