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gustative, a.|ˈgʌstətɪv|
[f. L. gustāre: see prec. and -ative.]
Having the function of tasting; also, concerned with tasting, gustatory.
1620Venner Via Recta vii. 108 That may be said to be hot or cold, &c. in the first degree, which is but slenderly perceiued of the gustatiue sense. 1698Fryer Acc. E. India & P. 182 A dulcid Sapor that imposes upon the Imagination and Gustative Faculty a Fancy that it relishes of any Fruit a man likes. 1865Mill Exam. Hamilton 484 In the case of the rhubarb, the object itself was of a nature to disturb the gustative faculty. 1876Bernstein Five Senses 300 Neither the chemical nor gustative properties of these compounds are separated by sharply defined limits. 1880Le Conte Sight 10 The..gustative nerve.
Hence ˈgustativeness, gustative quality, taste.
1827Blackw. Mag. XXI. 787 The organ of gustativeness enormously developed. 1875Masson Wordsw. etc. 176 He goes on to describe the nectarine in language that would reawaken gustativeness in the oldest fruiterer. |