Obs. Also 5–6 talage, 6 -e(d)ge, 7 talang. (app. corruption of TARAGE sb.1] Taste, savor (lit. and fig.); = TARAGE sb.1
14[?]. [see TARAGE sb.1].
1502. Atkynson, trans. De Imitatione, I. xxv. 178. To haue a spirituall tallage in god.
1528. Paynell, Salerne’s Regim., B b. Very nere the talage of water.
1542. Boorde, Dyetary, xii. (1870), 266. Chese … must be of good sauour & taledge.
1601. Holland, Pliny, VIII. xxxii. 213. Their first milke must haue a taste and talang of those two hearbs.
1617. J. Moore, Map Mans Mortalitie, II. vii. 147. Wherein … there rests some taste and tallage of the former corruptions.
b. The sense of taste.
1557. Primer, Prayer after receiving Sacrament. So to order the talage and taste of my heart, that I never fele other swetenes but thee.
1600. Holland, Livy, V. v. 183. Some kinde of meat or drinke … to please his palate and to content his talage.
