discourtv.
/dɪˈskɔːt/, U.S. /dɪˈskɔrt/, Scottish English /dɪˈskort/ Chiefly Scottish. Now historical and rare.
transitive. To dismiss or expel from the court of a king, prince, etc.; to deprive of the favour of court; = decourt v.
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society > society and the community > social relations > lack of social communication or relations > exclusion from society > exclude from society [verb (transitive)] > cast out from society > specifically from court
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1585 E. Wotton Let. to Walsingham 1 June in P. F. Tytler Hist. Scotl. (1864) IV. 99/2 Whether he might not be better discourted by way of justice.
1611 J. Speed Hist. Great Brit. vi. xlv. 258/1 Jehu..commanded all his Officers to offer sacrifice to the Idoll-Gods, pretending to dis-court all such as refused.
a1698 W. Row Suppl. in R. Blair Life (1848) (modernized text) xii. 436 Middleton was like to be discourted.
1721 R. Wodrow Hist. Sufferings Church Scotl. I. i. v. 192 I am told he plaintly threatned to disgrace and discourt him.
a1752 R. Erskine Serm. (1778) IX. clii. 390 When Solomon was discourted; then a multitude of enemies brake in upon him and his people.
2005 P. Lake in E. H. Shagan Catholics & ‘Protestant Nation’ vi. 157 Having been discourted by the machinations of a..corrupt, low-born, and self-selecting Protestant elite.
This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2013; most recently modified version published online March 2022).
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