degustate

Verb

degustate (third-person singular simple present degustates, present participle degustating, simple past and past participle degustated)

1. (obsolete, rare, transitive) To taste or eat.
   • Sceptics were they who, revelling at the table of Louis XIV in the sauces of a Bechamel, or lingering at the board of the great Condé over the chefs d'œuvre of a Vatel—that illustrious martyr to a point of culinary honour!—or inhaling gently and delicately, and degustating slowly, and with...1847, Monsieur A. Soyer, The Gastronomic Regenerator: A Simplified and Entirely New System of Cookery
   • Two young limbs continue the feast — one, not unlike the Fat Boy in "Pickwick," degustates with more vigour than refinement, and makes us think he must be the original of the schoolboy who wrote the most laconic and soul-moving reputation, surveys the offing through a telescope on the outlook for...1901, W. A. Mackenzie, “Pleasures of the Thames sixty years ago”, in The English Illustrated Magazine, volume 25, page 409