† disˈtastive, a. (n.) Obs.
[f. as prec. + -ive.]
1. Feeling or expressing distaste or dislike.
| 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. xv. §10 (R.) Such fleering pick-thanks, that blow them [my faults] stronger into your unwilling and distastiue ear. |
2. Disgusting, unpleasant, offensive.
| 1600 Newe Metamorphosis (Nares), Thus did they finishe their distastive songe. 1611 Speed Hist. Gt. Brit. ix. iii. §8 A Niding, a word of such disgrace, and so distastiue vnto the English. 1642 Sir E. Dering Sp. on Relig. x. 78 Some endeavours of mine..reported more distastive than before. |
B. n. Anything unpleasant or distasteful.
| 1654 Whitlock Zootomia 384 Pride..jealousie..or other Distastives incident to that part of advise, called Reproofe. |