1690, John Locke, An Essay Concerning Humane Understanding, Volume I. Chapter , Bread or tobacco may be neglected where they are shown to be useful to health, because of an indifferency or disrelish to them; reason and consideration at first recommends, and begins their trial, and use finds, or custom makes them pleasant.
1818, John Franklin, The Journey to the Polar Sea Chapter , The residents live principally upon this most delicious fish which fortunately can be eaten a long time without disrelish.
BurkeMen love to hear of their power, but have an extreme disrelish to be told of their duty.
1819, , Otho the Great, Act IV, Scene II, verses 40-42... that those eyes may glowWith wooing light upon me, ere the MornPeers with disrelish, grey, barren, and cold.
1872, J. Fenimore Cooper, The Bravo Chapter , "I have no other malice against the race, Signore, than the wholesome disrelish of a Christian.
1982, Lawrence Durrell, Constance, Faber & Faber 2004 (Avignon Quintet), p. 685:They heated up tinned food in a saucepan of hot water and ate it with sadness and disrelish, under the belief that they were economising.
Absence of relishing or palatable quality; bad taste; nauseousness.
Verb
(transitive) To have no taste for; to reject as distasteful.
(transitive) To deprive of relish; to make nauseous or disgusting in a slight degree.
