mistasting
mistasting is the present participle and gerund of mistaste.
Meaning of mistaste
Verb
mistaste (third-person singular simple present mistastes, present participle mistasting, simple past and past participle mistasted)
- To overindulge in food or drink
- To 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
- To 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
Questions about mistasting
- What is mistasting the present participle and gerund of?
- Mistasting is the present participle and gerund of mistaste.
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