distaste
English
Etymology
dis- + taste
Pronunciation
- enPR: dĭs-tāstʹ, IPA(key): /dɪsˈteɪst/
Audio (UK) (file)
- Rhymes: -eɪst
Noun
distaste (usually uncountable, plural distastes)
- A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
- (obsolete) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Adversity”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290:
- Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes
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- (obsolete) Discomfort; uneasiness.
- 1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Adversity”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret, OCLC 863521290:
- Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
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- Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
- 1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […], OCLC 228722708; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, OCLC 230729554, lines 8–9:
- On the part of Heav'n / Now alienated, diſtance and diſtaste,
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Derived terms
- distasteful
Translations
feeling of dislike
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Verb
distaste (third-person singular simple present distastes, present participle distasting, simple past and past participle distasted)
- (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
- c. 1602, William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Troylus and Cressida”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act II, scene ii], column 1:
- How may I auoyde / (Although my will diſtaſte what it elected) / The Wife I choſe, there can be no euaſion / To blench from this, and to ſtand firme by honour.
- 1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, OCLC 54573970, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection 1, page 296:
- Plato made it a great ſigne of an intemperate and corrupt common-wealth, where Lawyers and Phyſitians did abound, and the Romanes diſtaſted them ſo much, that they were often baniſhed out of theire city, as Pliny and Celſus relate, for 600 yeares not admitted.
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- (intransitive) to be distasteful; to taste bad
- c. 1603–1604 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Tragedie of Othello, the Moore of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358, [Act III, scene iii]:
- Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, […]
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- (obsolete, transitive) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
- 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.
- 1612, John Davies, Discoverie of the True Causes why Ireland was never entirely subdued
- (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
- 1596, Michael Drayton, Mortimeriados:
- That ne'er quails me, at which your greatest quake;
Which the time then did utterly distaste
- That ne'er quails me, at which your greatest quake;
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References
- distaste in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913
Anagrams
- staidest
Italian
Verb
distaste
- inflection of distare:
- second-person plural past historic
- second-person plural imperfect subjunctive
Anagrams
- destasti, dettassi
Portuguese
Verb
distaste
- second-person singular preterite indicative of distar
Spanish
Verb
distaste
- second-person singular preterite indicative of distar