Disgust

Definition of Disgust

Dis`gust´

v. t.	1.	To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one) loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend the moral taste of; - often with at, with, or by. [imp. & p. p. Disgusted; p. pr. & vb. n. Disgusting.] To disgust him with the world and its vanities. - Prescott. Ærius is expressly declared . . . to have been disgusted at failing. - J. H. Newman. Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the convention. - Macaulay.
n.	1.	Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste; - said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite disgust. The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust wherewith it is received. - Locke. In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have excited only disgust. - Macaulay.

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