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distaste (not pre-Eliz.; 2, 3 not pre-S.)
1. to have no taste for, disrelish, dislike Troil. II. ii. 66, Lr. I. iii. 15 (Qq “dislike”).
2. to offend the taste, cause disgust Troil. IV. iv. 48 “D-ing” (Ff) “with the salt of broken tears,” Oth. III. iii. 328.
3. to render distasteful Troil. II. ii. 123 “her brainsick raptures Cannot the goodness of a quarrel,” IV. iv. 48 “D-d” (Qq) “with the salt of broken tears.”
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