▪ I. disrelish, n.
(dɪsˈrɛlɪʃ)
Also 7 disrellish.
[f. disrelish v. or dis- 9 + relish n.]
Distaste, dislike, aversion, some degree of disgust.
| a 1625 Fletcher Nice Valour i. i, Being once glutted, then the taste of folly Will come into disrelish. 1645 Fuller Good Th. in Bad T. (1841) 37 Dissensions..will breed in pagans such a disrelish of our religion. 1667 Milton P.L. x. 569 With hatefullest disrelish writh'd thir jaws With soot and cinders fill'd. 1717 Pope Let. to Atterbury 20 Nov., With a dis-relish of all that the world calls Ambition. 1791 Burke App. Whigs Wks. VI. 202 Men..have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty. 1802 Med. Jrnl. VIII. 403 Her disrelish for food amounted to disgust. 1841 Miall in Nonconf. I. 96 Conduct..indicative of his disrelish for the whole subject. |
b. Something which excites distaste or aversion.
| 1823 New Monthly Mag. IX. 104/2 The extraordinary nasal twang..not to mention other disrelishes, we cannot get over. |
▪ II. disrelish, v.
(dɪsˈrɛlɪʃ)
[f. dis- 6 or 7 a + relish v. or n.]
† 1. trans. To destroy the relish or flavour of; to render distasteful. Obs.
(The first quot. appears to belong here: rellese, rellice occur as 16th c. spellings of relish.)
| 1548 Udall, etc. Erasm. Par. Luke xv. 130 b, Yet is it [the plentie or aboundance of the prodigal] marred and dis⁓realised with muche galle of sondrie griefes and sorowes. 1628 Earle Microcosm. (1740) 86 Some musty proverb that disrelishes all things whatsoever. 1667 Milton P.L. v. 305. 1691 Norris Pract. Disc. 140 'Tis like the Handwriting on the Wall, enough to spoil and disrelish the Feast. 1760 Sterne Serm. III. 374. |
2. To have a distaste for, to find not to one's taste; to regard with disfavour; to dislike.
| 1604 Shakes. Oth. ii. i. 236 Her delicate tendernesse wil..begin to heaue the gorge, disreelish and abhorre the Moore. 1642 Milton Apol. Smect. Wks. 1738 I. 117 How long is it since he hath disrelish'd Libels? 1764 Mem. G. Psalmanazar 256 This excellent book, though..disrelished by some weak Christians. 1799 G. Washington Lett. Writ. 1893 XIV. 151, I am not surprised that some members of the House..should disrelish your report. 1886 Stevenson Kidnapped xxvii. (1888) 281 He so much disrelished some expressions of mine that..he showed me to the door. |
† 3. To prove distasteful to; to disgust. Obs.
| 1649 Bp. Hall Cases Consc. iii. vii. (1650) 230 Or preach some truth which dis-relishes the palate of a prepossessed auditor. 1659 Lady Alimony iv. vii. in Hazl. Dodsley XIV. 352 What might I say, That should disrelish Madam Caveare? 1708 J. Philips Cyder i. 28 He tastes the bitter morsel, and rejects Disrelisht. |
4. intr. To be distasteful, to ‘go down badly.’
| 1631 [See disrelishing below]. 1647 Sprigge Anglia Rediv. iv. iv. 223 This much disrelished with the Lord Hopton. 1814 Cary Dante Par. xvii. 113, I learnt that, which if I tell again, It may with many wofully disrelish. |
Hence disˈrelished ppl. a.; disˈrelishing vbl. n.; disˈrelishing ppl. a., distasteful.
| 1631 R. Brathwait Whimzies Ep. Ded. 8 Strong lines have beene in request, but they grew disrelishing. 1659 Lady Alimony ii. v. in Hazl. Dodsley XIV. 314 A freedom from our disrelish'd beds. 1692 Dryden St. Evremont's Ess. 78 This first disrelishing of the Republick, had..so much of Honesty that [etc.]. 1821 Lamb Elia Ser. i. Imperf. Sympathies, When once it becomes indifferent, it begins to be disrelishing. 1846 D. King Treat. Lord's Supper iv. 89 A violated law and a disrelished salvation. |