\Dis*taste"\, n.
1. Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink;
   disrelish. --Bacon.
2. Discomfort; uneasiness.
         Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes,
         and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.
                                               --Bacon.
3. Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.
         On the part of Heaven, Now alienated, distance and
         distaste.                             --Milton.
Syn: Disrelish; disinclination; dislike; aversion;
     displeasure; dissatisfaction; disgust.

\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. [Obs.]
         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.

\Dis*taste"\, v. i.
To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable. [Obs.]
      Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons,
      Which at the are scarce found to distaste. --Shak.