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tasten

1. To taste
   • c. 1393, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, 4.2546-7:

     Wherof a man mai hiere and se
     And smelle and taste in his degre

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2. (with of) To partake in or ingest
   • 1987, Rolf Hendrik Bremmer, The Fyve Wyttes: A late Middle English Devotional Treatise Edited form BL MS Harley 2398, pg 27, l 7-8:

     whenne Adam tastede of pe appui he wiste neuer whefrer it was sowr or swete, ne for pe swetnesse fcerof was he nou3t repreued, bot for forfete азепз Godes [lawe].

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3. To examine by touch; grope; palpate
   • c. 15th c,, The Romance of Merlin, folio la, ch XXXIII, pg 681.

     Merlin leide his heed in the damesels lappe, and she be-gan to taste softly till he fill on slepe

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4. To experience, feel (with sexual connotation)
   • c. 1393, John Gower, Confessio Amantis, 5.6692-5:

     Mi fader, nay; bot I have tasted
     In many a place as I have go,
     And yit love I nevere on of tho,
     Bot forto drive forth the dai.

     My father, no; but I have tasted
     In as many a place as I have been,
     And yet love I never granted them,
     But for that which drove forth the day.

5. To try, test, tempt

派生した語

• English: taste