cultivated taste; delicacy, refinement, fine feeling, gust, gusto,
tact, finesse; nicety &c (discrimination) 465; to prepon [Gr.]; polish,
elegance, grace.
judgment, discernment &c 465.
dilettantism, dilettanteism; virtu; fine art; culture,
cultivation.
[Science of taste] aesthetics.
man of taste &c; connoisseur, judge, critic, conoscente, virtuoso,
amateur, dilettante, Aristarchus†, Corinthian, arbiter elegantiarum
[Lat.], stagirite†, euphemist.
caviare to the general [Hamlet].
V. appreciate, judge, criticise, discriminate &c 465
Adj. in good taste, cute, tasteful, tasty; unaffected, pure, chaste,
classical, attic; cultivated, refined; dainty; esthetic, aesthetic,
artistic; elegant &c 578; euphemistic.
to one's taste, to one's mind; after one's fancy; comme il faut
[Fr.]; tire a quatre epingles [Fr.].
Adv. elegantly &c adj..
Phr. nihil tetigit quod non ornavit [Lat.] [from Johnson's epitaph on
Goldsmith]; chacun a son gout [Fr.]; oculi pictura tenentur aures
cantibus [Lat.] [Cicero].