a. Now rare. [See TASTED B.]
1. Having a good taste or flavor.
1635–56. Cowley, Davideis, I. 673. A pure, well-tasted, wholsome Fountain.
a. 1700. Evelyn, Diary, Aug. 1645. In this place are excellent oysters, small and well tasted like our Colchester.
1771. in Phil. Trans., LXI. 321. Carp … will grow within two Summers … to be fleshy and well-tasted.
1803. A. Hunter’s Georg. Ess., I. 429. Sweet and well-tasted butter from the milk of cows fed upon turnips.
1850. Gosse, Rivers of Bible (1878), 232. The water was found by this traveller to be well-tasted.
fig. 1641. Milton, Prel. Episc., A 2 b. To uphold their now well-tasted Hierarchy by what faire pretext soever they could.
1746. Young, Nt. Th., IX. 2183. With thee bring, Not hideous visions, as of late; but draughts Delicious of well-tasted, cordial, rest; Man’s rich restorative.
2. Of a person: Gifted with good taste.
1911. R. Brooke, in Memoir (1918), p. lxvii. So many intelligent and well-tasted people didn’t seem to have any idea what I was driving at.
