Emily Dickinson Lexicon
Definition for DIS-TASTE'
DIS-TASTE', v.t.
- To disrelish; to dislike; to lothe; as, to distaste drugs or poisons.
- To offend; to disgust. He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish, but sought to please them. – Davies.
- To vex; to displease; to sour. – Pope. [The two latter significations are rare.]
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