Dis-prai'se'1, n.
n. [Prefix dis and praise, q. v.] The act of dispraising; detraction from praise; blame; censure; reproach; dishonor; disparagement. The general has seen Moors with as bad faces; no dispraise to Bertran's. Dryden.
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n. [Prefix dis and praise, q. v.] The act of dispraising; detraction from praise; blame; censure; reproach; dishonor; disparagement. The general has seen Moors with as bad faces; no dispraise to Bertran's. Dryden.
v. t. [imp. & p. p. DISPRAISED; p. pr. & vb. n. DISPRAISING.] To withdraw praise from; to notice with disapprobation or some degree of censure; to blame.
I dispraised him before the wicked. Shak.