v. [UN-2 3.] trans. To dispraise.
c. 1375. Cursor M., 27585 (Fairf.). We agh ilkman our-self vpraise & in our hert vs vnpraise [Cott. dispraise].
a. 1500. Praise of Women, in Rel. Ant., I. 275. To onpreyse womene, yt were a shame.
1728. Young, Love Fame, VII. 45. Cannot thrice ten hundred years unpraise The boist’rous boy, and blast his guilty bays?
1729. Savage, Wanderer, I. 345. Shou’d some nobler Bard their Worth unpraise, Deserting Morals, that adorn his Lays.
