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Discompose

verb
(past & past part. discomposed; pres. part. discomposing)
1.
Cause to lose one's composure.  Synonyms: discomfit, disconcert, untune, upset.






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"Discompose" Quotes from Famous Books



... to the remains of this poor young lady, I was unwilling to discompose the gaiety of the society assembled here on my account by any show of grief. Accordingly, I joined the Bishop, or, as he is called, his Grace, and his canons, in their entertainments at different houses, and in gardens, of which the city and its ...
— Memoirs of Marguerite de Valois, Complete • Marguerite de Valois, Queen of Navarre

... mastered by wine. Which implies that priests, and all persons who devote themselves to the contemplation of divine things, ought to keep their minds sedate and calm, and avoid whatever might disturb and discompose their tranquillity, which nothing is more apt to do ...
— Gargantua and Pantagruel, Complete. • Francois Rabelais

... 131) describes Savage's 'superstitious regard to the correction of his sheets ... The intrusion or omission of a comma was sufficient to discompose him, and he would lament an errour of a single ...
— Life Of Johnson, Volume 4 (of 6) • Boswell

... is, once more, only a book for those who have the gift of reading.[11] I will be very frank—I believe it is so with all good books except, perhaps, fiction. The average man lives, and must live, so wholly in convention, that gun-powder charges of the truth are more apt to discompose than to invigorate his creed. Either he cries out upon blasphemy and indecency, and crouches the closer round that little idol of part-truths and part-conveniences which is the contemporary deity, or he is convinced by what is new, forgets what is old, ...
— Essays of Robert Louis Stevenson • Robert Louis Stevenson

... not help feeling touched. Not knowing exactly how to soothe her, he exclaimed, "What makes you treat me so coolly? It is true we are not old acquaintances, but it does not follow that this should prevent us from becoming good friends. Please don't discompose yourself like one who does not know the world at ...
— Japanese Literature - Including Selections from Genji Monogatari and Classical - Poetry and Drama of Japan • Various

... my dinner hour," said the stranger; "I dine considerably later; taking anything now would only discompose me; I shall, however, be most happy to sit down with the young gentleman; reach me that paper, and, when the young gentleman has satisfied his appetite, we may perhaps have a little ...
— Lavengro - The Scholar, The Gypsy, The Priest • George Borrow



Words linked to "Discompose" :   discombobulate, elicit, throw, enkindle, pain, hurt, evoke, provoke, unnerve, fire, kindle, abash, faze, bewilder, discomposure, unsettle, embarrass, bemuse, raise, enervate, untune, anguish, dissolve, afflict, arouse



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