palatedadj.

1671 R. Head & F. Kirkman Eng. Rogue IV. xviii. sig. R*7 Every day produced its new divertisement, every hour each of us studied how we might appear Rivals to the most Epicrean critical pallated Poleanate of the Universe.

a1688 J. Bunyan Saints' Knowl. Christ's Love in Wks. (1692) 431/1 Every part, crumb, grain, or scrap of this knowledge, is to a Christian, as drops of hony are to sweet palated children, worth the gathering up, worth the putting to the taste to be relished.

1725 J. Smedley Christmas Invitation to Ld. Carteret 3 The full-grown Oxen, or the steery kind, We no where, better palated can find.

1730 T. Cooke Candidates for Bays 5 Affording sage Lawyers Diversion and Sport, And goes down with nice palated Ladies at Court.

1804 J. Collins Scripscrapologia p. vi If kindly palated, with Taste unprejudic'd.

1865 Times 15 Sept. 7/1 There will be many more ‘railway murders’ to regale the strong-palated readers of the morning journals.

1983 Washington Post (Nexis) 27 Apr. e1 If you are blessed with a fine-palated baby who spits out carrots from the jar.

1999 Hispanic Amer. Hist. Rev. 79 788 His coarse-palated crewmen naturally found the oily, oxidized, smelly stew perfectly acceptable.