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The doctrines held by Augustine or by the Augustinians.

In an august manner.

The quality of being august; dignity of mien; grandeur; magnificence.

To taste. [Obs.] Cockeram.

Tasting; the appreciation of sapid qualities by the taste organs. Bp. Hall.

To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by. To disgust him with the world and its vanities. Prescott. Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. J. H. Newman. Alarm…

Provoking disgust; offensive to the taste; exciting aversion; disgusting. That horrible and disgustful situation. Burke.

The state of being disgustful.

That causes disgust; sickening; offensive; revolting. -- Dis*gust"ing*ly, adv.

Tasteless; insipid. Sir T. Browne.

A bitter principle found in the bark of the privet (Ligustrum vulgare), and extracted as a white crystalline substance with a warm, bitter taste; -- called also ligustron.

Tasting beforehand; having a foretaste. [R.] Ed. Rev.

The act of tasting beforehand; foretaste. [R.] Dr. Walker (1678).

ecclesiastical reckoning, the eleventh by the civil computation, coinciding nearly with August. W. Smith.

One of a sect in Africa (4th century), mentioned by St. Augustine, who states that they married, but lived in continence, after the manner, as they pretended, of Abel.

To fill with horror or disgust. [Obs.] It doth abhor me now I speak the word. Shak.

The feeling of extreme disgust and hatred; abhorrence; detestation; loathing; as, he holds tobacco in abomination.

orizontally, having no dip. The aclinic line is also termed the magnetic equator. Prof. August.

the Age of Stone man is supposed to have employed stone for weapons and implements. See Augustan, Brazen, Golden, Heroic, Middle.

criminate assentation degrade as much as indiscriminate contradiction and noisy debate disgust. Ld. Chesterfield.