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Webster's Dictionary (1865)

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Disgust

Dis-gūst', n.

noun

n. [O. Fr. desgoust, Fr. dégoût, It. & Sp. disgusto, from Lat. prefix dis and gustus, tasting, taste.] Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion to that which is presented to the taste; displeasure produced by something loathsome; distaste; dislike;—said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for any thing which offends the physical organs of taste; also of the analogous repugnance excited by any thing extremely unpleasant to the higher sensibilities of the soul.

In a vulgar hack-writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. Macaulay.

Synonyms—Aversion; distaste; dislike. See AVERSION.

Dis-gŭst', v. t.

verbtransitive

v. t. [imp. & p. p. DISGUSTED; p. pr. & vb. n. DISGUSTING.] [Lat. prefix dis and gustare, to taste, from gustus, taste; It. disgustare, Sp. disgustar, O. Fr. desgouster, Fr. dégoûter. See supra.] To provoke disgust or dislike in; to excite aversion in; to offend the taste of; to displease;—used often with at or with; as, to be disgusted at foppery. “To disgust him with the world and its vanities.” Prescott.