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Webster 1913 Edition
Distaste
Dis-taste′
,Noun.
1.
Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
Bacon.
2.
Discomfort; uneasiness.
Prosperity is not without many fears and
distastes
, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.
3.
Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
Syn. – Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.
Dis-taste′
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Distasted
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Distasting
.] 1.
Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.
Although my will
distaste
what it elected. Shakespeare
2.
To offend; to disgust; to displease.
[Obs.]
He thought in no policy to
distaste
the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. Sir J. Davies.
3.
To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
Drayton.
Dis-taste′
,Verb.
I.
To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.
[Obs.]
Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons,
Which at the are scarce found to
Which at the are scarce found to
distaste
. Shakespeare
Webster 1828 Edition
Distaste
DISTASTE
,Noun.
1.
Aversion of the taste; dislike of food or drink; disrelish; disgust, or a slight degree of it. Distaste for a particular kind of food may be constitutional, or the effect of a diseased stomach.2.
Dislike; uneasiness.Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comfort and hopes.
3.
Dislike; displeasure; alienation of affection.DISTASTE
, v.t.1.
To disrelish; to dislike; to lothe; as, to distaste drugs or poisons.2.
To offend; to disgust.He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish, but sought to please them.
3.
To vex; to displease; to sour.[The two latter significations are rare.]