distaste (distast)

[ If one di ent, he shall sit down, without showing any further distaste , publicly or privately. Winthrop, Hist. New England, I. 213. On the part of Heaven Now alienated, distance and distaste . Milton, P. L., ix. 9. A positive crime might have been more easily pardoned than a symptom of distaste for the foreign comestibles. Charlotte Bronte, Shirley, vi, A certain taste for figures, coupled with a still stronger distaste for Latin accidence, directed his inclination and his father's choice towards a mercantile career. A. M. Clerke, Astron. in 19th Cent., p. 37. 21. Discomfort; uneasine ; annoyance. Now, brother, I should chide; 1.] 1. Nauseous; unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; hence, offensive in general. Why shou'd you pluck the green distasteful fruit From the unwilling bough, When it may ripen of itself and fall? Dryden, Don Sebastian, iii. 1. Our ordinary mental food has become distasteful . 0. W. Holmes , Old Vol. of Life, p. 2. 2. Indicating distaste, di atisfaction, or dislike; repulsive; malevolent. After distasteful looks, and cold-moving nods, They froze me into silence. Shak., T. of A., ii. 2. = Syn. 1. Unpalatable, unsavory, disagreeable. distastefully (dis-tast'ful-i), adv . In a displeasing or offensive manner. Bailey , 1727. distastefulne (dis-tāst'fül-nes), n. agreeablene to the taste, in any sense. The allaying and qualifying much of the bitter and dis tastefulne of our physick. Dis W. Montague , Devoute E ays, II. x. § 2. Distastefulne alone would, however, be of little service to caterpillars, because their soft and juicy bodies are so delicate, that if seized and afterwards rejected by a bird they would almost certainly be killed. A. R. Wallace , Nat. Select., p. 118. distastivet (dis-tās'tiv), a. and n. [ distaste +-ive.] I. a. Having distaste or dislike. Your vnwilling and distastiue ear. IMG:content-2883.png:[blocks in formation] This duke (saith Grafton), being an aged man and for tunate before in all his warres, vpon this dist a sture im pre ed such dolour of minde, that for very griefe thereof he liued not long after. = IX. xxiii. § 32. [ It. distemper are , dis Speed , Queen Mary, dist emo no us (di-stēmō-nus), a. two-, + στήμων , stamen, + -ous.] In bot., having two stamens; diandrous. distemper1 (dis-tem'pèr), v. [ peren , destemprer = Sp. des templar = Pg. destemperar , disorder, temprare, stem per are, stemprare , disorder, distemper (now chiefly in sense of distemper2 ), distemper are , derange, disorder, distemper, L. dis- priv. + temper are (> OF. temprer , F. tremper , etc.), temper: see temper . Cf. dis temper2.] I. trans. 11. To change the temper or due proportions of. The four the is, whan thurgh the gret abundance of his mete the humours in his body ben distempered . Chaucer, Parson's Tale. 2. To disease; disorder; derange the bodily or mental functions of. This variable composition of man's body hath made it as an instrument easy to distemper . Bacon , Advancement of Learning, ii. 189. You look very ill: something has distempered you. B. Jonson, Epicæne, iv. 2. He had abord his ve els aboute 80. lustie men (but very unruly), who, after they came ashore, did so distem per them selves with drinke as they became like madd Bradford, Plymouth Plantation, p. 441. men. But body and soul are distempered when out of tune, unmodulated, unbalanced. J. F. Clarke , Self-Culture, p. 290. 3. To deprive of temper or moderation; ruffle; disturb. Distempre you nought. Chaucer , Summoner's Tale, 1. 495. Men's spirits were distempered, as I have related, and it might have been expected that they would have been much divided in their choice. N. Morton , New England's Memorial, p. 272. Strange that this Monviedro Should have the power so to distemper me. Cole ridge. But the dust of prejudice and pa ion, which so distem pers the intellectual vision of theologians and politicians, is seen to make no exception of the perspicacity of philologists. F. Hall , Mod. Eng., p. 350. II.t in trans. To become diseased. [Rare.] The stones on thi lande is for to drede; For thai be somer hoote and winter colde, That vyne, and greyne, and tree distempre wolde. dis temperance If little faults, proceeding on distemper , Shall not be wink'd at, how shall we stretch our eye When capital crimes, chew'd, swallow'd, and digested, Appear before us? Shak., Hen. V., ii. 2 We read a great deal of the disappointments of authors, and a prevalent dis - temper resulting therefrom. N. and Q., 7th ser., III. 431. Hence-2. Disease; malady; indisposition; any morbid state of an animal body or of any part of it: now most commonly applied to the diseases of brutes. Of no distemper , of no blast he died, But fell like autumn fruit that mellowed long. Dryden and Lee , Edipus, iv. 1. The person cured was known to have laboured under that distemper some years before our Saviour was born. Bp . Atterbury , Sermons, II. i. Specifically -3. A disease of young dogs, commonly considered as a catarrhal disorder. It is in general characterized by a running from the nose and eyes as one of the first and leading symptoms, and is usually accompanied by a short dry cough, and succeeded by wasting of the flesh and lo of strength and spirits. 41. Want of due temperature; severity of climate or weather. Those countries... directly under the tropic were of a distemper uninhabitable. Raleigh , Hist. World. 51. Want of due balance of parts or opposite qualities and principles. Temper and distemper [of empire] consist of contraries. Bacon , Empire. 61. Ill humor; bad temper. He came, he wrote to the govern our, wherein he confe ed his pa ionate distemper , and declared his meaning in those offensive speeches. ... Winthrop, Hist. New England, II. 20. The said Weston gave such cutting and provoking speeches as made the said captain rise up in great indignation and distemper . N. Morton, New England's Memorial, p. 106. 71. Political disorder; tumult. Waller .-8. Uneasine ; disorder of mind. There is a sickne Which puts some of us in distemper . Shak ., W. T., i. 2. =Syn. 2. Infirmity, Malady, etc. (see disease ), complaint, disorder, ailment. II.t a. Lacking self-restraint; intemperate. Chaucer .