dehort

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He says: "I dehort mine from Christmas keeping and charge them to forbear."

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  1. To dissuade; advise to the contrary; urge not to do or not to undertake a certain thing; deter. If the wasting of our money might not dehort vs, yet the wounding of our mindes should deterre vs. Lyly, Euphues, Anat. of Wit, p. 106. The bold Galilean, St. Peter, took the boldness to dehort his Master from so great an infelicity. Jer. Taylor, Works (ed. 1835), I. 297.

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  • He says: "I dehort mine from Christmas keeping and charge them to forbear." —  Customs and Fashions in Old New England
  • I do appear to you, to tell him of it, and to advise and dehort him from his evil ways. —  Miscellanies Upon Various Subjects
  • This duke hath too many followers in our days: say what you can, dehort, exhort, persuade to the contrary, they are no more moved,--_quam si dura, silex aut stet Marpesia cautes_, than so many stocks, and stones; tell them of heaven and hell, 'tis to no purpose, laterem lavas_, they answer as Ataliba that Indian prince did friar Vincent, [6637]"when he brought him a book, and told him all the mysteries of salvation, heaven and hell, were contained in it: he looked upon it, and said he saw no such matter, asking withal, how he knew it:" they will but scoff at it, or wholly reject it. —  The Anatomy of Melancholy
  • ‘Exhort’ remains; but ‘dehort’ a word whose place neither ‘dissuade’ nor any other exactly supplies, has escaped us {154}. —  English Past and Present
  • _money_ might not _dehort_ us, yet the _wounding_ of our _mindes_ should _deterre_ us. ' —  The Bibliotaph and Other People
 

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  1. = Spanish Portuguese dehortar, from Latin dehortari, dissuade, persuade, from de, from, + hortari, advise: see hortation, and cf. exhort.
 

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