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Definition of Degust
1. Verb. Taste with relish. "Degust this wonderful soup"
Definition of Degust
1. v. t. To taste.
Definition of Degust
1. Verb. To taste ¹
2. Verb. To savour ¹
¹ Source: wiktionary.com
Definition of Degust
1. to taste with pleasure [v -ED, -ING, -S]
Lexicographical Neighbors of Degust
Literary usage of Degust
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Incantation of the Law Against Inept Critics: A Guide to Cryptic Thinking by Morten St. George (2006)
"To it, satellites the death will degust The verb ... Latin "degustare," meaning
to taste (same as the English "degust"), to make a trial of, or to probe. ..."
2. Notes and Queries by Martim de Albuquerque (1862)
"... strange (and yet it is ye reall truth), that y' secular advantages of that
place I do degust as much as the trouble of it, and rather y* more of y° two. ..."
3. Reports of Cases Argued and Determined in the Court of King's Bench: With by Great Britain Court of King's Bench, Richard Vaughan Barnewall, John Leycester Adolphus (1833)
"... degust the officer sold the goods for I nil. (a sum alleged complained that
to be much below their value), and paid the proceeds to ..."
4. The Silverado Squatters by Robert Louis Stevenson (1902)
"... a deity to be invoked by two or three, all fervent, hushing their talk, degust-
ing tenderly, and storing reminiscences— for a bottle of good wine, ..."
5. The Cloister and the Hearth: A Tale of the Middle Ages by Charles Reade (1892)
"... that in declining vinum merum upon that score, he would have added in the next
hexameter, “ But a soupe au yin, madame, I will degust, and gratefully. ..."
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