Dictionary entry

Distaste (2)

Webster's Dictionary 1913

Dis‐taste″, v. t. [imp. & p. p.Distasted; p. pr. & vb. n.Distasting.] 1. Not to have relish or taste for; to disrelish; to loathe; to dislike.

Although my will distaste what it elected. Shak.

2. To offend; to disgust; to displease.

He thought in no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them. Sir J. Davies.

3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful. Drayton.