Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary · 1913

Discomfit

Discomfit , transitive verb

[Old French desconfit, past participle of desconfire, French déconfire; from Latin dis- + conficere to make ready, prepare, bring about. See Comfit, Fact.]

1.
To scatter in fight; to put to rout; to defeat.
And his proud foes discomfit in victorious field. — Spenser
2.
To break up and frustrate the plans of; to balk{not transcribed} to throw into perplexity and dejection; to disconcert.
Well, go with me and be not so discomfited. — Shakespeare

Discomfit , adjective

Discomfited; overthrown. [Obsolete]

Discomfit , noun

Rout; overthrow; discomfiture.
Such a discomfit as shall quite despoil him. — Milton