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Not that fasting is a thing of itself to be discommended, for it is an excellent means to keep the body in subjection, a preparative to devotion, the physic of the soul, by which chaste thoughts are engendered, true zeal, a divine spirit, whence wholesome counsels do proceed, concupiscence is restrained, vicious and predominant lusts and humours are expelled.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Natural baths are praised by some, discommended by others; but it is in a divers respect.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Decimus, that hunting pope, is much discommended by [1877] Jovius in his life, for his immoderate desire of hawking and hunting, in so much that (as he saith) he would sometimes live about Ostia weeks and months together, leave suitors [1878] unrespected, bulls and pardons unsigned, to his own prejudice, and many private men's loss.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

To thy thinking she is a most loathsome creature; and as when a country fellow discommended once that exquisite picture of Helen, made by Zeuxis, [5406] for he saw no such beauty in it; Nichomachus a lovesick spectator replied,

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Not that these things (as I said of fasting) are to be discommended of themselves, but very behoveful in some cases and good: sobriety and contemplation join our souls to God, as that heathen [6459] Porphyry can tell us.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

In some cases, this desperate humour is not much to be discommended, as in wars it is a cause many times of extraordinary valour; as Joseph, lib.

Anatomy of Melancholy 2007

Amidst these offences of foulness and violence, and so many iniquities, are sins of men, who are on the whole making proficiency; which by those that judge rightly, are, after the rule of perfection, discommended, yet the persons commended, upon hope of future fruit, as in the green blade of growing corn.

The Confessions 1999

My whole planet was ‘discommended’ nearly a century ago now, when the Earth fleets first beat our own spaceforce back into our own space, cutting us off from our ally worlds and then destroying them.

Dark Mirror Diane Duane 1993

But we need not insist on the commendation of prayer, for it will be said, "By whom was it ever discommended?"

Pneumatologia 1616-1683 1967

Christian love and unity, and thereon we might easily enlarge, as also abound in a collection of testimonies confirming our assertions; but the old reply in such a case, — “By whom ever were they discommended?” — evidenceth

A Discourse concerning Evangelical Love, Church Peace, and Unity 1616-1683 1965