DISTASTE

n. v.

7 definitions — Webster’s Dictionary (1828)

1.
n.

Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish. Bacon.

2.
n.

Discomfort; uneasiness. Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes. Bacon.

3.
n.

Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger. On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and distaste. Milton.

4.
v.

Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike. Although my will distaste what it elected. Shak.

5.
v.

To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.] He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. Sir J. Davies.

6.
v.

To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. Drayton.

7.
v.

To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.] Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which at the are scarce found to distaste. Shak.

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