distaste

noun

1. (uncountable, usually)A feeling of dislike, aversion or antipathy.
2. (obsolete, uncountable, usually)Aversion of the taste; dislike, as of food or drink; disrelish.

   “Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes; and adversity is not without comforts and hopes”

3. (obsolete, uncountable, usually)Discomfort; uneasiness.

   “Prosperity is not without many fears and distastes, and adversity is not without comforts and hopes.”

4. (uncountable, usually)Alienation of affection; displeasure; anger.

   “On the part of Heav'n / Now alienated, diſtance and diſtaste,”

verb

1. (obsolete, transitive)To dislike.

   “How may I auoyde / (Although my will diſtaſte what it elected) / The Wife I choſe, there can be no euaſion / To blench from this, and to ſtand firme by honour.”

   “Plato made it a great ſigne of an intemperate and corrupt common-wealth, where Lawyers and Phyſitians did abound, and the Romanes diſtaſted them ſo much, that they were often baniſhed out of theire city, as Pliny and Celſus relate, for 600 yeares not admitted.”

2. (intransitive)To be distasteful; to taste bad

   “Dangerous conceits are, in their natures, poisons. / Which at the first are scarce found to distaste, […]”

3. (obsolete, transitive)To offend; to disgust; to displease.

   “He thought it no policy to distaste the English or Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to please them.”

4. (obsolete, transitive)To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or distasteful.

   “And vvhat auayl'd his Anſvver in that Caſe? / VVhich the time then did vtterly diſtaſte, / And look'd vpon him vvith ſo ſterne a Face, / As it his Actions vtterly diſgrac'd: […]”