1625 N. Brent tr. P. Sarpi Free Schoole of Warre To Rdr. 4 Like some Disseasoned Palats, thou doost nauseate at Plentie.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xxxix We are apt to nauseate at very good meat, when we know that an ill Cook did dresse it.

1733 A. Pope Impertinent 11 As one of Woodward's Patients,..I puke, I nauseate.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary II. vii. 192 The old-fashioned civility that presses food upon you, after you have eaten till you nauseate.

a1825 R. Forby Vocab. E. Anglia (1830) Gag, to nauseate; to reject with loathing, as if the throat were closed against the admission of what is offered; to make an unsuccessful effort to vomit.

1657 J. Sergeant Schism Dispach't 6 He cannot but hate that in himself, which he nauseates at in another.

1741 I. Watts Improvem. Mind i. xiv. 206 Don't over-fatigue the Spirits..lest the Mind be seiz'd with a Lassitude, and thereby be tempted to nauseaute.

1886 J. F. Maurice Lett. from Donegal 6 The hard-fisted Orangemen..are beginning to nauseate under this sort of treatment.

1626 T. Adams Five Serm. iv. 42 Pull the cuppe from the mouth of the Drunkard: Nauseate the stomach of the Ryotous.

1654 Earl of Monmouth tr. G. Bentivoglio Compl. Hist. Warrs Flanders 230 Which we thought good to touch upon here only, not to nawseate the Reader.

1692 J. Washington tr. J. Milton Def. People Eng. viii. 183 Which Book will nauseate [L. necabit] a great many Readers to death.

1719 D. Defoe Farther Adventures Robinson Crusoe 69 It nauseated their very Stomachs, made them sick when they thought of it.

1774 T. Percival Ess. Med. & Exper. (1776) III. 144 Lime water often nauseates the patient.

a1854 Ld. Cockburn Memorials (1856) ii. 122 [He] had long nauseated the civil court by his burgh politics.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 456 Castor oil is very repulsive to the palate, so much so as to nauseate..some susceptible individuals.

1914 S. Lewis Our Mr. Wrenn xii. 156 Perhaps it was his cattle-boat experience which now made him deal directly with such drunkenness as would have nauseated him three months before.

1977 Lancet 9 July 74/1 Some patients are nauseated by pancreatic extract in powder form.

1988 M. Seymour Ring of Conspirators vii. 201 Only one thing nauseated him as much as the modern bathing suit and that was the prose of Robert Louis Stevenson.

1786 S. J. Pratt Triumph of Benevolence 17 Let others waste on power their meteor strains, Till flattery nauseates, and till echo tires.

1812 Examiner 23 Aug. 542/2 A single..drop from the cup of egotism was apt to nauseate.

1855 A. B. Garrod Essentials Materia Medica 138 This addition to senna is important, as the argel gripes and nauseates.

1875 H. C. Wood Treat. Therapeutics (1879) 54 These are the simple bitters. In over~doses they nauseate.

1962 Observer 28 Oct. 23/7 A retreat into daydream-fantasy that eventually either nauseates or numbs.

1993 B. Cox Coll. Poems 80 I view flash burns, enough I think To satisfy a wish for truth, Not bad enough to nauseate.

1627 W. Sclater Briefe Expos. 2 Thess. 159 This faithlesse and crooked generation..to whom the light of Gods truth hath so long and clearely shined, and yet they loue darkenesse rather then light. Euidences of the crime take these... Their nauseating the plentie of this Manna.

1655 H. L'Estrange Reign King Charles 3 The Prince began to nauseate the match, and to meditate all honourable evasions.

1699 Bp. G. Burnet Expos. Thirty-nine Articles iv. 62 The Herd among the Gentiles..must have nauseated the Christian Simplicity.

1755 E. Young Centaur vi, in Wks. (1757) IV. 250 The grave reader, who nauseates it, sacrifices..the substance of what is right.

1795 J. Macknight New Literal Transl. Apostolical Epist. III. 261 The people nauseated the wholesome doctrines of true piety.

1874 E. B. Pusey Lenten Serm. 274 Men nauseate..the love of God, because they know it not.

1941 ‘N. Blake’ Case of Abominable Snowman ii. 19 I nauseate the piano. It is an instrument fit only for tradesmen's daughters to practise upon.

1994 R. Davies Cunning Man 284 But Dear One nauseates opera, though I rather fancy it.

1640 E. Reynolds Treat. Passions xiii. 119 The Elephant nauseates his meat, if a Mouse have touched it.

1650 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica (ed. 2) iii. xxv. 143 Many [dishes] are commended..in one age, which are..nauseated in another.

1686 R. Boyle Free Enq. Notion Nature v. 166 'Tis..profitable for man, that his stomach should nauseate or reject things that have a loathsome taste or smell.

1703 W. Burkitt Expos. Notes New Test. Matt. xiii. 52 Lest the Houshold by always feeding upon the same Dish, do nauseate it.

1767 A. Campbell Lexiphanes 165 Just as a green-sickness girl, when gorged with chalk and trash, nauseates the nicest dainties.

1811 A. T. Thomson London Dispensatory ii. 112 Many stomachs are apt to nauseate it at that time.

1859 I. Taylor Logic in Theol. 134 Nauseating the sumptuous dainties of royal banquets.

1873 J. D. Lang Irish Stew in Poems Sacred & Secular ii. 129 Show me the puny sectarian who Has a stomach that nauseates Irish stew!