单词 | gustation |
释义 | gustationn. The action or faculty of tasting; taste. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > [noun] > act of tasting taste1340 tasting1390 touchinga1400 savouringc1405 gusting?1533 gustation1599 smacking1648 degustation1651 elibation1656 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 106/1 Mixe it with Suger, because it mighte be the more delectable of gustation. 1615 H. Crooke Μικροκοσμογραϕια 631 This heape of Glandules..groweth to the roote of the Tongue that it might continually be moistned, for without moisture there can be no Gustation. 1646 Sir T. Browne Pseudodoxia Epidemica vii. xiv. 367 The Gullet and conveying parts..which partake not of the nerves of gustation or appertaining unto sapor. View more context for this quotation 1737 H. Bracken Farriery Improved xxiii. 336 Man..ransacks both the Indies for hot fiery Spices to satisfy his most unreasonable Gustation. 1841 T. R. Jones Gen. Outl. Animal Kingdom xxviii. 560 The whole interior of the mouth is..from its construction, little adapted to gustation. 1846 W. Hamilton in T. Reid Wks. 828 While Gustation expresses the act of what is able to taste, the act of that capable of being tasted is nameless. 1873 A. Flint Nerv. Syst. i. 16 The special senses, such as sight, audition, olfaction, and gustation. This entry has not yet been fully updated (first published 1900; most recently modified version published online September 2020). < n.1599 |
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