scomfit
English
Alternative forms
- scomfyte (14th-16th centuries)
Etymology
Clipping of discomfit.
Verb
scomfit (third-person singular simple present scomfits, present participle scomfiting, simple past and past participle scomfit or scomfited)
- (obsolete) To defeat, vanquish.
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxj, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
- For now here was one knyȝt scomfyte x knyghtes
- 1485, Sir Thomas Malory, chapter xxj, in Le Morte Darthur, book IV:
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