discoast

• discost (obsolete)

From dis- +‎ coast: compare Italian discostare.

• IPA^(key): /dɪsˈkəʊst/

discoast (third-person singular simple present discoasts, present participle discoasting, simple past and past participle discoasted)

1. (obsolete, intransitive) To depart; to leave the coast (literally, or figuratively the side or border); to be separated.
   • a. 1623, Giles Fletcher, Christ's Victorie and Triumph, in Heaven, in Earth, over and after Death:

     As far as heaven and earth discoasted lie.

   • a. 1678 (date written), Isaac Barrow, “(please specify the chapter name or sermon number)”, in The Works of Dr. Isaac Barrow. […], volume (please specify |volume=I to VII), London: A[braham] J[ohn] Valpy, […], published 1830–1831, →OCLC:

     To discoast from the plain and simple way of speech.

• “discoast”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.

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