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▪ I. distaste, n.|dɪsˈteɪst|
Also 7 distast.
[f. dis- 9 + taste n.: prob. as a rendering of It. disgusto, OF. desgoust: see Florio and Cotgrave.]
1. Disrelish or dislike of food or drink; nausea; bad taste in the mouth. Now rare or Obs.
1598Florio, Sgusto, disgust, distast, vnkindnes, dislike. 1614Bp. Hall Recoll. Treat. 1008 Moses was..in the same distaste of bitternes. 1635R. Brathwait Arcad. Pr. i. 200 Nor house, nor ground, nor any kind of wealth Can relish his distaste that has no health. 1753N. Torriano Gangr. Sore Throat 28 [She] was seized..in the Evening, with a Distaste; she had a very uneasy and tumbling Night. 1849C. Brontë Shirley I. vi. 111 A positive crime might have been more easily pardoned than a symptom of distaste for the foreign comestibles.
2. Disinclination, dislike; (moderate) aversion, disgust, or repugnance.
1598Florio, [see sense 1]. 1605Bacon Adv. Learn. i. i. §3 (1873) 8 Make application of our knowledge, to give ourselves repose and contentment, not distaste or repining. a1628F. Greville Sidney (1652) 58 To raise a general distast in all men against the Government. a1652J. Smith Sel. Disc. i. 17 Besides in wicked men there are sometimes distastes of vice. 1660R. Coke Power & Subj. 59 For there is no native who is not in distaste with some body. 1726G. Shelvocke Voy. round World (1757) 455 Which gave the ships company, such a distaste of Clipperton. 1816Keatinge Trav. (1817) I. 252 The Moors..have a distaste for the proselytes when made. a1822Shelley Assassins ii, Their predilections and distastes. 1869J. Martineau Ess. II. 5 An aversion more resembling a distaste than a conviction.
†3. Unpleasantness; annoyance, discomfort. Obs.
1611B. Jonson Poetaster v. i, Our ear is now too much profaned, grave Maro, With these distastes, to take thy sacred lines. 1625Bacon Ess., Adversity (Arb.) 505 Prosperity is not without many Feares and Distastes. 1711Steele Spect. No. 4 ⁋2 There are so many Gratifications attend this publick sort of Obscurity, that some little Distastes I daily receive have lost their Anguish.
†4. Offence, cause of offence or dislike. Obs.
1608D. T. Ess. Pol. & Mor. 21 b, Court-Parasites..do labor upon the least distast that is offred, to procure an utter dislike. 1698J. Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 156 To avoide giving distaste in not removing their Hats. 1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xxv. 280 At which Bishop Cheny took such distast. 1731Rape Helen 24 note, Achilles would not go to battle for some distaste Agamemnon had given him.
†5. Mutual aversion, estrangement, difference, quarrel. Obs.
1621Sir W. Aston in Fortesc. Papers 152 The King and his ministers have taken some distast. 1623Bingham Xenophon 73 This was the only difference and distaste betwixt Cherisophus and Xenophon during this whole iourney. 1677E. Smith in 12th Rep. Hist. MSS. Comm. App. v. 38 They say he murdered himselfe..because of some distast betwixt his master and him. 1697W. Dampier Voy. I. 433 All civil and quiet..No noise, nor appearance of distaste.
▪ II. distaste, v. Now rare. (Frequent in 17th c.)|dɪsˈteɪst|
Also 7 distast.
[f. dis- 6 + taste v.: prob. orig. an English rendering of It. (di)sgustare, or OF. desgouster: see Florio and Cotgr. In sense 5 used as f. dis- 7 a + taste n.]
†1. trans. To dislike the taste of, have no taste for, disrelish (food, drink, etc.). Obs.
1586Bright Melanch. xxxvi. 214 The tongue distasteth all things even of most pleasant relish. 1615Latham Falconry (1633) 104 If you finde her any whit to distaste the water, then put into it..sugar-candie. 1641French Distill. v. (1651) 144 It..may be given..to any that distast physick, in their milke. a1661Fuller Worthies (1840) III. 433 Distasting wholesome meat well dressed.
2. To have or conceive a mental distaste for or repugnance to (anything); to regard with aversion or displeasure; to have no taste for, disrelish, dislike.
1592Davies Immort. Soul xxx. xxxv. (1714) 98 These do by fits her Fantasie possess; But she distastes them all within a while. 1621Burton Anat. Mel. ii. iv. i. i. (1651) 363 The Romans distasted them so much that they were often banished out of their city. 1733Neal Hist. Purit. II. 216 He was sorry that an established doctrine of the Church should be so distasted. 1805Foster Ess. iii. 93 [He] should distaste the society of his class. 1893Stevenson Catriona 60 A man..whom I distasted at the first look, as we distaste a ferret or an earwig.
†b. with obj. clause or inf. phr. Obs.
1596Drayton Legends iii. 607 Who was so dull, that did not then distaste, That thus the King His Nobles should neglect? 1621in L. Bacon Genesis of New Eng. Ch. (1874) xvi. 350 That you sent no lading in the ship is..worthily distasted. 1629Gaule Pract. The. 161 How doe we abhorre and distast, to think him opprobriously debased.
†3. To offend the taste of; to disgust, nauseate.
1610Heywood Gold. Age ii. Wks. 1874 III. 22 This meat distasts me, doth Lycaon..feed vs with humane flesh? 1636Henshaw Horæ Succ. 21 Never refuse health because the Physicke that should procure it is bitter; let it distast me so it heale me. 1678Yng. Man's Call. 155 Distempered stomacks, that are easily distasted.
†b. absol. or intr. To offend the taste; to cause disgust. Obs.
1604Shakes. Oth. iii. iii. 327 Poysons, Which at the first are scarce found to distaste. 1613–6W. Browne Brit. Past. ii. iii, Then least his many cherries should distast, Some other fruit he brings than he brought last. 16435 Years K. James in Select. Harl. Misc. (1793) 310 Poisons, that neither discolour nor distaste.
4. trans. To excite the dislike or aversion of; to be distasteful to; to displease, offend; pass. to be displeased or offended (with, at).
1597–8Bacon Ess., Suitors (Arb.) 44 Suters are so distasted with delaies, and abuses. 1638Sir T. Herbert Trav. (ed. 2) 100 Yet loth in any thing to distaste the King. 1666Pepys Diary 24 Oct., The Prince was distasted with my discourse..about the sad state of the fleet. 1702Addison Dial. Medals ii. 35, I have sometimes however been very much distasted at this way of writing. 1709J. Johnson Clergym. Vade M. ii. p. xiii, The Apostle..avoids the saying any thing that might distaste the Corinthians. 1833I. Taylor Fanat. vi. 192 No enormity can distaste or alarm him. 1893Pall Mall G. 18 Jan. 1/2 Threats and demonstrations so violent as to distaste the sympathies of many.
†b. absol. or intr. To cause displeasure or offence; to be distasteful. Obs.
1614Sylvester Du Bartas, Bethulia's Rescue i. 21 Great-gracious Lady, let it not distaste That Ivdith made not..more haste To kisse Your hands. c1618Fletcher Q. Corinth i. ii. 1654Whitlock Zootomia Pref. A vij, If any thing that's good i' th' Book you see, Ascribe to God; but what distasts, to mee.
†5. trans. To destroy or spoil the taste or savour of; to render distasteful or tasteless. Obs.
1606Shakes. Tr. & Cr. ii. ii. 123 Her brainsicke raptures Cannot distaste the goodnesse of a quarrell. 1617Hieron Wks. II. 390 It is inough to sowre & to distaste the whole lumpe of our deuotions. 1646J. Hall Poems Pref., Neither am I solicitous how they savour..and these I give over as already distasted. 1650Trapp Comm. Deuter. xxviii. 15 If it distaste not his dough, or empty his basket.
Hence disˈtasting vbl. n.
1591Sylvester Du Bartas i. vii. 377 For a light surfet, or a small dis-tasting. 1654Whitlock Zootomia 280 Suffer anything through..Indiscretion, or unadvised Distastings. |