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tasteful, a.|ˈteɪstfʊl|
Also 7–8 tastful.
[f. taste n.1 + -ful.]
†1. Having the capacity of tasting or trying.
1647Crashaw Poems, Flaming Heart 50 What is't your tasteful spirits do prove In that rare life of her and love?
2. Having an agreeable taste; palatable, toothsome, tasty. Now rare.
1611Cotgr., Savoureux, sauorie, tastfull, tart, well smacking. 1621Bp. R. Montagu Diatribæ 358 Stolne waters are sweet,..no Bread so tastefull, as that of the Sanctuarie. 1707Curios. in Husb. & Gard. 217 The tasteful Cider. 1747Gentl. Mag. May 243/2 With Temp'rance came, delightful guest! Health,—tasteful food, and balmy rest. 1887J. J. Hissey Holiday on Road 177 Sheep that live upon such a pasturage should yield a tasteful dish.
†b. fig. Mentally pleasant or agreeable. Obs.
a1659Osborn Ess. iii. Wks. (1673) 562 Since nothing is more tasteful to Humanity, than Understanding. a1701Maundrell Let. to Sir C. Hedges in Journ. Jerus. (1732) Pref., An Affectation, which however tastful it may be to the Persons who use it [etc.].
c. Full of taste; highly-flavoured. rare.
1881Sala in Illustr. Lond. News 14 May 467/3 Punch is too strong and tasteful with turtle soup.
3. Having or showing good taste, as a person; displaying good taste, as a work of art, etc.
1756Connoisseur No. 120 ⁋6 These are the poets who favour us with..tasteful compositions. 1816Singer Hist. Cards 213 They were drawn on the blocks by the tasteful pencil of Stothard. 1849N. & Q. I. 28/2 The tasteful publisher of the ‘Aldine Poets’. 1863Lyell Antiq. Man ii. 10 The pottery..is of a more ornamental and tasteful style.
b. Of or pertaining to taste; æsthetic.
1851J. Hamilton Royal Preacher x. (1858) 134 Conceding..the same right to exert his tasteful and intellectual faculties when listening to a sermon as when perusing a..book.
Hence ˈtastefully adv., in a tasteful manner, with good taste; ˈtastefulness, the quality or state of being tasteful (in various senses).
1611Cotgr., Savoureusement, sauorily, *tastfully, tastingly, with a good stomacke. 1808M. T. Kemble Day after Wedding 3 A Lady's Dressing-room tastefully furnished. 1900Westm. Gaz. 22 Oct. 4/2 The tastefully-arranged gardens which are to be found at many stations on that railway.
1727Bailey vol. II, *Tastefulness, Relishableness, Palatableness. 1844Dickens Mart. Chuz. ix, Mr. Pecksniff's delight in the tastefulness of the house. |