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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.
1528Lyndesay Dreme 569 The Martyris war as nobyll stalwart Knychtis,—Discomfatouris of creuell battellis thre, The flesche, the warld, the feind. 1820Milman Fall Jerusalem (1821) 89 What birth So meet and fitting for the great Discomfiter? 1886Sat. Rev. 24 Apr. 571/1 The discomfiter of Mr. Chamberlain. |