▪ I. † ˈrelished, a. Obs.
Also 6 rellesde.
[f. relish n.1 + -ed2.]
Having a (specified) relish; (well, ill, etc.) tasted or flavoured.
| 1567 Drant Horace, Ep. E vj, Then do I hope to drinke Lyuely and myldlie rellesde wynes. 1594 Carew Huarte's Exam. Wits ix. (1596) 123 He could not skil to speake with ornament and sweet and well relished tearms. 1638 Junius Paint. Ancients 315 An ill-relished gallamaufrey or hodge⁓podge. 1653 R. Sanders Physiogn. 279, I..have sufficiently waded in this various, yet pleasant relisht Doctrine. 1707 Mortimer Husb. (1721) II. 289 The John Apple..is a good relished sharp Apple the Spring following. |
▪ II. ˈrelished, ppl. a.
[f. relish v.1 + -ed1.]
Liked (as food); enjoyed, appreciated.
| 1901 Yearbk. U.S. Dept. Agric. 1900 433 There was an outbreak of seventeen-year cicadas, which afforded an abundant and greatly relished food supply. |