Definitions
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.
- noun The act or faculty of tasting.
from The Century Dictionary.
- noun The act of tasting; the sense of taste; the gustatory function.
from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.
- noun rare The act of tasting.
from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.
- noun The act of
tasting .
from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
- noun the faculty of distinguishing sweet, sour, bitter, and salty properties in the mouth
Etymologies
from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition
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Examples
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A challenge to across-the-board representationalism comes from experiences in modalities where it is unclear whether the experiences represent happenings in the space outside the body, such as gustation, olfaction, and experiences of afterimages.
The Contents of Perception Siegel, Susanna 2005
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I have tried it at Pizza hut as well, but it didnt appeal my gustation.
Archive 2007-07-01 bhags 2007
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And if any have been so happy as truly to understand Christian annihilation, ecstasies, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the spouse, gustation of
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I have tried it at Pizza hut as well, but it didnt appeal my gustation.
The zing thing.......... bhags 2007
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As to legal ramifications of sinful gustation, CKE seems covered two ways: nutritional data is readily available, and their marketing is to young adults, not kids.
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The truth is I taste a lot, many things, and often, and because of my love of tasting I often do so in the company of other people passionate about gustation.
Augieland: 2006
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The truth is I taste a lot, many things, and often, and because of my love of tasting I often do so in the company of other people passionate about gustation.
Supertasters? 2006
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On the other hand, civilization, house-building, warm apartments and kitchen fires, well-stored larders, and especially exemption from rude toil, abolish these extreme caricatures; and keeping appetite down to a middling level by the rote of meals, and thus taking away the incentives to ravenous haste, they allow the mind to tutor and variegate the tongue, and to substitute the harmonies and melodies of deliberate gustation for such unseemly bolting.
The Atlantic Monthly, Volume 17, No. 101, March, 1866 Various
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Yet this savour, according to Locke, did not reside at first in the pineapple, to be conveyed on contact to the palate and to the mind; but it was generated in the process of gustation; or perhaps we should rather say that it was generated in the mind on occasion of that process.
Some Turns of Thought in Modern Philosophy Five Essays George Santayana 1907
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"Christian annihilation, ecstasies, exolution, liquefaction, transformation, the kiss of the spouse, gustation of God and ingression into the divine shadow."
A History of English Romanticism in the Nineteenth Century 1886
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