mistaste

present singular third person mistastes · participle present mistasting · participle past mistasted · past mistasted

1. obsoletetransitiveTo overindulge in food or drink
2. obsoletetransitiveTo take wrongly or in error; mistake; err

   I staid at Belgrade some weeks longer, but thought to go no more that way, and by this strange discovery I made hereby of womens temper, I resolv'd to bear in my memory two maxims of this country, which are, if I mistaste not, left as follows.

   1790, George Sandys, A general history of the Ottoman Empire

3. archaictransitiveTo taste wrongly or in error

   The support provided by custom or by the oenological guide serves only to make it understood that one has not tasted the wine or, having mistasted it, that one perceived nothing or almost nothing.

   2009, Jean-Luc Marion, The Visible and the Revealed - Page 131

plural mistastes

1. A wrong, bad, or illicit taste

   Still, my palate was alive, questing for the slightest mistaste. But there was none.

   2014, Robin Hobb, The Farseer Trilogy 3-Book Bundle

2. archaicAn error; mistake

   A mistake is really a mistaste. The most striking use of the sense of taste is in More's choice of persuasio to characterize the basic way mind is moved and guided. This is not surprising.

   1973, Martin Fleisher, Radical Reform and Political Persuasion in the Life and Writings of Thomas More