Distasting

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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Distaste \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.
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              Although my will distaste what it elected. --Shak.
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     2. To offend; to disgust; to displease. [Obs.]
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              He thought in no policy to distaste the English or
              Irish by a course of reformation, but sought to
              please them.                          --Sir J.
                                                    Davies.
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     3. To deprive of taste or relish; to make unsavory or
        distasteful. --Drayton.
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