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1. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disgust \Dis*gust"\, n. [Cf. OF. desgoust, F. d['e]go[^u]t. See
   Disgust, v. t.]
   Repugnance to what is offensive; aversion or displeasure
   produced by something loathsome; loathing; strong distaste;
   -- said primarily of the sickening opposition felt for
   anything which offends the physical organs of taste; now
   rather of the analogous repugnance excited by anything
   extremely unpleasant to the moral taste or higher
   sensibilities of our nature; as, an act of cruelty may excite
   disgust.
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         The manner of doing is more consequence than the thing
         done, and upon that depends the satisfaction or disgust
         wherewith it is received.                --Locke.
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         In a vulgar hack writer such oddities would have
         excited only disgust.                    --Macaulay.

   Syn: Nausea; loathing; aversion; distaste; dislike;
        disinclination; abomination. See Dislike.
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2. The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disgust \Dis*gust"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disgusted; p. pr. &
   vb. n. Disgusting.] [OF. desgouster, F. d['e]go[^u]ter;
   pref. des- (L. dis-) + gouster to taste, F. go[^u]ter, fr. L.
   gustare, fr. gustus taste. See Gust to taste.]
   To provoke disgust or strong distaste in; to cause (any one)
   loathing, as of the stomach; to excite aversion in; to offend
   the moral taste of; -- often with at, with, or by.
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         To disgust him with the world and its vanities.
                                                  --Prescott.
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         [AE]rius is expressly declared . . . to have been
         disgusted at failing.                    --J. H.
                                                  Newman.
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         Alarmed and disgusted by the proceedings of the
         convention.                              --Macaulay.
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