Definition for DIS-REL'ISH

DIS-REL'ISH, n. [dis and relish.]

  1. 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.
  2. Bad taste; nauseousness. – Milton.
  3. 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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