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† preguˈstation Obs.
Also præ-.
[n. of action f. L. prægustāre: see prec. So obs. F. prégustation (Godef.).]
A tasting before, a foretaste.
1656Blount Glossogr., Pregustation.., a tasting or assaying before. a1658A. Farindon Serm. (1674) III. 398 The Child, when he is hungry, desires milk, because he hath a kind of prægustation of milk in his very nature. 1667Waterhouse Fire Lond. 93 Over early pregustation of Woe. 1678A. Walker Character Lady Warwick 117 In the actual exercise of prayer, by which she so often anticipated Heaven by pregustation. |