degustates

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