untaste

English edit

Pronunciation edit

IPA^(key): /ʌnˈteɪst/

Etymology 1 edit

Verb edit

untaste (third-person singular simple present untastes, present participle untasting, simple past and past participle untasted)

To deprive of a taste for something.
- 1609, Samuel Daniel, “The Eightth Booke”, in The Civile Wares betweene the Howses of Lancaster and Yorke […], London: […] [Humphrey Lownes for] Simon Watersonne, →OCLC, stanza 83, page 224:
  […] Vntaſte them of this violent diſguſt;
To lose, cancel out, or forget the taste of; reverse the tasting of
- 2015, Zanzibar 7 Schwarznegger, Veneri Verbum - Page 73:
  “Ugh! Ugh and double-ugh!” Elsa was trying to wipe dough off her face and away from her mouth. “I am never going to untaste that. Never!
- 2015, Holly Black, Doll Bones - Page 40:
  He spat in the dirt, trying to untaste the idea.
- 2015, Jen Rose Yokel, Ruins & Kingdoms - Page 45:
  Could we untaste Eden's tainted fruit?

Etymology 2 edit

From un- (“absence of”) +‎ taste.

Noun edit

untaste (uncountable)

Absence or lack of taste (all senses); tastelessness
- 1964, Charles Norman, E. E. Cummings: the magic-maker - Page 267:
  Those years comprise (among other drolleries) a complete reversal of public untaste; "nonobjective art", once anathematized, being now de rigeur.
- 1988, George Henry Tavard, Poetry and contemplation in St. John of the Cross - Page 66:
  Moreover, from untaste to unknowing, from unknowing to non-possession, from non-possession to non-being, there is an obvious progress, but in negativity.
- 2001, Thomas Fleming, Hours of Gladness:
  [...] only that mind could appreciate the true meaning of hell, a place of virtual nonexistence, of absolute cold, of emptiness beyond all sensations, an abstract vacuum of untouch, untaste, unhope, unlove. An urplace that negated every word, [...]

Part or all of this entry has been imported from the 1913 edition of Webster’s Dictionary, which is now free of copyright and hence in the public domain. The imported definitions may be significantly out of date, and any more recent senses may be completely missing.
(See the entry for “untaste”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.)