Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-REL'ISH
DIS-REL'ISH, n. [dis and relish.]
- Distaste; dislike of the palate; some degree of disgust. Men generally have a disrelish for tobacco, till the taste is reconciled to it by custom.
- Bad taste; nauseousness. – Milton.
- Distaste or dislike, in a figurative sense; dislike of the mind, or of the faculty by which beauty and excellence are perceived.
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