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noun

Tasting n. The act of perceiving or tasting by the organs of taste; the faculty or sense by which we perceive or distinguish savors.

verb

Taste v. t. (past & past part. tasted; pres. part. tasting)

1.

To try by the touch; to handle; as, to taste a bow. (Obs.) "Taste it well and stone thou shalt it find."

2.

To try by the touch of the tongue; to perceive the relish or flavor of (anything) by taking a small quantity into a mouth. Also used figuratively. "When the ruler of the feast had tasted the water that was made wine." "When Commodus had once tasted human blood, he became incapable of pity or remorse."

3.

To try by eating a little; to eat a small quantity of. "I tasted a little of this honey."

4.

To become acquainted with by actual trial; to essay; to experience; to undergo. "He... should taste death for every man."

5.

To partake of; to participate in; usually with an implied sense of relish or pleasure. "Thou... wilt taste No pleasure, though in pleasure, solitary."

Taste v. i.

1.

To try food with the mouth; to eat or drink a little only; to try the flavor of anything; as, to taste of each kind of wine.

2.

To have a smack; to excite a particular sensation, by which the specific quality or flavor is distinguished; to have a particular quality or character; as, this water tastes brackish; the milk tastes of garlic. "Yea, every idle, nice, and wanton reason Shall to the king taste of this action."

3.

To take sparingly. "For age but tastes of pleasures, youth devours."

4.

To have perception, experience, or enjoyment; to partake; as, to taste of nature's bounty. "The valiant never taste of death but once."

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Etymology of 'Tasting'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Tasting" Quotes from Famous Books

... even so were his disciples. The innate good sense of this speech increased his reputation. About this time, too, he would sometimes prophesy, and undergo long periods of motionless self-abstraction. At the end of one of these latter, after tasting no food or drink for three and a half hours, he gave utterance to what was afterwards known as the First Revelation. It ran to this effect: "The Man-God is the Man-God, and not the God-Man." Asked how he arrived at so stupendous an aphorism, he answered that it just came to him. There were troubles ...

— South Wind • Norman Douglas

... a moment to declare, that, on the contrary, I have always commended it myself, and heard it commended by every one else; and few things would give me more concern than to be thought incapable of tasting, or unwilling to testify my ...

— The Journal of a Tour to the Hebrides with Samuel Johnson, LL.D. • James Boswell

... my men," cried Stango, "exceedingly scurvily; the best and strongest stuff in the cellar has been kept back from us. It's excellent—I've been tasting it first, lest you should all be poisoned; and there's more where this come from—oceans ...

— Stories by English Authors: England • Various

... three more flies came down together, and lit in a row, one behind another. They were different from the first, and he decided to try again. He chose the foremost of the three, and found it quite as ill-tasting as the other had been; but this time he didn't spit it out, for the stinger was a little too quick for him, and before he could let go it was fast in his lip. For the next few minutes he tore around the pool ...

— Forest Neighbors - Life Stories of Wild Animals • William Davenport Hulbert

... to the highest measure of possibility. Error, ignorance and sin must be met and vanquished by light and love. The eyes of the angels are upon us. The eye of God is upon us. Shall we fetter and paralyze our intellectual capabilities for the sake of enjoying the paltry pleasure of tasting the most loathsome and destructive weed in the whole vegetable ...

— The Gospel Day • Charles Ebert Orr

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