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<hw>Dis*taste"</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. i.</tt> <def>To be distasteful; to taste ill or disagreeable.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons, Which at the are scarce found to <b>distaste</b>. <i>Shak.</i></blockquote>

<h1>Distasteful</h1> <Xpage=434>

<hw>Dis*taste"ful</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <p><b>1.</b> <def>Unpleasant or disgusting to the taste; nauseous; loathsome.</def>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>Offensive; displeasing to the feelings; disagreeable; <as>as, a <ex>distasteful</ex> truth</as>.</def>

<blockquote><b>Distasteful</b> answer, and sometimes unfriendly actions. <i>Milton.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>Manifesting distaste or dislike; repulsive.</def> "<i>Distasteful</i> looks."

<i>Shak.</i>

<syn>Syn. -- Nauseous; unsavory; unpalatable; offensive; displeasing; dissatisfactory; disgusting.</syn>

- <wordforms><wf>Dis*taste"ful*ly</wf>, <tt>adv.</tt> -- <wf>Dis*taste"ful*ness</wf>, <tt>n.</tt></wordforms>

<h1>Distasteive</h1> <Xpage=434>

<hw>Dis*taste"ive</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>a.</tt> <def>Tending to excite distaste.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark> -- <def2><tt>n.</tt> <def>That which excites distaste or aversion.</def></def2> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Whitlock.</i>

<h1>Distasture</h1> <Xpage=434>

<hw>Dis*tas"ture</hw> <tt>(?; 135)</tt>, <tt>n.</tt> <def>Something which excites distaste or disgust.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<i>Speed.</i>

<h1>Distemper</h1> <Xpage=434>

<hw>Dis*tem"per</hw> <tt>(?)</tt>, <tt>v. t.</tt> <wordforms>[<tt>imp. & p. p.</tt> <er>Distempered</er> <tt>(?)</tt>; <tt>p. pr. & vb. n.</tt> <er>Distempering</er>.]</wordforms> <ety>[OF. <ets>destemprer</ets>, <ets>destremper</ets>, to distemper, F. <ets>d\'82tremper</ets> to soak, soften, slake (lime); pref. <ets>des-</ets> (L. <ets>dis-</ets>) + OF. <ets>temprer</ets>, <ets>tremper</ets>, F. <ets>tremper</ets>, L. <ets>temperare</ets> to mingle in due proportion. See <er>Temper</er>, and cf. <er>Destemprer</er>.]</ety>

<p><b>1.</b> <def>To temper or mix unduly; to make disproportionate; to change the due proportions of.</def> <mark>[Obs.]</mark>

<blockquote>When . . . the humors in his body ben <b>distempered</b>. <i>Chaucer.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>2.</b> <def>To derange the functions of, whether bodily, mental, or spiritual; to disorder; to disease.</def>

<i>Shak.</i>

<blockquote>The imagination, when completely <b>distempered</b>, is the most incurable of all disordered faculties. <i>Buckminster.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>3.</b> <def>To deprive of temper or moderation; to disturb; to ruffle; to make disaffected, ill-humored, or malignant.</def> "<i>Distempered</i> spirits."

<i>Coleridge.</i>

<p><b>4.</b> <def>To intoxicate.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>

<blockquote>The courtiers reeling, And the duke himself, I dare not say <b>distempered</b>, But kind, and in his tottering chair carousing. <i>Massinger.</i></blockquote>

<p><b>5.</b> <fld>(Paint.)</fld> <def>To mix (colors) in the way of distemper; <as>as, to <ex>distemper</ex> colors with size</as>.</def> <mark>[R.]</mark>