2. Verb. (third-person singular of taste) ¹
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Definition of Tastes
1. taste [v] - See also: taste
Lexicographical Neighbors of Tastes
Literary usage of Tastes
Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:
1. Dictionary of National Biography by Leslie Stephen (1885)
"It has been seen that she had the honour of knighting Isaac Newton. been largely
due to a wish to respond to the tastes of her husband. ..."
2. A History of English Dramatic Literature to the Death of Queen Anne by Adolphus William Ward (1899)
"The old tastes have not been extinguished ; the love of classical ... So far from
these tastes having been suppressed, the opportunity has arrived for ..."
3. The Dictionary of National Biography by Sidney Lee (1909)
"Here his special tastes abundantly developed. Charles Merivale calls him ' king
of our cricket field ' (Autobiogr. p. 44), though his nervousness prevented ..."
4. Daniel Defoe: His Life and Recently Discovered Writings: Extending from 1716 by Lee, William, Daniel Defoe (1869)
"... On Variety of tastes. A Story. AJ, April n.—Sir, We that every now and then
write Letters to the World by your Hands, to supply your Readers with ..."
5. The Encyclopedia Americana: A Library of Universal Knowledge (1918)
"He amassed great wealth, but continued to be generous to the needy and modest
and simple in his tastes and manners. Sir Arthur Helps wrote his 'Life' ..."
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