Definition of "distaste"

distaste

/dɪsˈteɪst/

noun
usually uncountable, plural distastes
1. A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
2. (obsolete) Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.
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  Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes
  1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Adversity”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret
3. (obsolete) Discomfort; uneasiness.
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  Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
  1625, Francis [Bacon], “Of Adversity”, in The Essayes […], 3rd edition, London: […] Iohn Haviland for Hanna Barret
4. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
  Quotations
  On the part of Heav'n / Now alienated, diſtance and diſtaste,
  1667, John Milton, “Book VIII”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], […]; republished as Paradise Lost in Ten Books: […], London: Basil Montagu Pickering […], 1873, lines 8–9
verb
third-person singular simple present distastes, present participle distasting, simple past and past participle distasted
1. (obsolete, transitive) To dislike.
  Quotations
  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.
  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, [Act II, scene ii], column 1
  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.
  1624, Democritus Junior [pseudonym; Robert Burton], The Anatomy of Melancholy: […], 2nd edition, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Printed by John Lichfield and James Short, for Henry Cripps, partition II, section 4, member 1, subsection 1, page 296
2. (intransitive) to be distasteful; to taste bad
  Quotations
  Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, […]
  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, [Act III, scene iii]
3. (obsolete, transitive) To offend; to disgust; to displease.
  Quotations
  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
4. (obsolete, transitive) To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.
  Quotations
  And vvhat auayl'd his Anſvver in that Caſe? / VVhich the time then did vtterly diſtaſte, / And look'd vpon him vvith ſo ſterne a Face, / As it his Actions vtterly diſgrac'd: […]
  1605, Michael Drayton, “The Barons Warres. In the Reigne of Edward the Second. The Sixt Canto.”, in Poems: […], London: […] Willi[am] Stansby for Iohn Smethwicke, published 1630, stanza 81, page 151

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