Dis*taste" (?), n.
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.
On the part of Heaven,
Now alienated, distance and distaste.
Milton.
Syn. -- Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion; displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.
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Dis*taste", v. 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.
Shak.
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.
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Dis*taste" (?), v. i.
To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.
[Obs.]
Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons,
Which at the are scarce found to distaste.
Shak.
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