Degustate

Quick meaning: Degustate is a verb meaning (transitive, rare, obsolete) To taste or eat.

Meaning

(transitive, rare, obsolete) To taste or eat.

Example Sentences

On the Sabbath Day he lies abed till nine, indulges in the luxury of a hot bath, degustates a leisurely breakfast, and takes his wife and family to church.

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 privateers.

Word Forms

• degustates
• degustating
• degustated

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include degust, taste, delibate, palate, regale, fare.

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