Dis*taste" (?), n. 1.
Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink;
disrelish. Bacon.
2. Discomfort; uneasiness.
Prosperity is not without many fears and
distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and
hopes.
Bacon.
3. Alienation of affection; displeasure;
anger.
On the part of Heaven,
Now alienated, distance and distaste.
Milton.
Syn. -- Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion;
displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.
Dis*taste", v. t. [imp. & p.
p. Distasted; p. pr. & vb. n.
Distasting.] 1. Not to have relish or
taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.
Although my will distaste what it
elected.
Shak.
2. 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.
3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make
unsavory or distasteful. Drayton.
Dis*taste" (?), v. i. 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.
