Taste (Critical Essay‪)‬

Taste in a physical sense has been in English since C13, though its earliest meaning was wider than tasting with the mouth and aver to the modern touch or feel. It came from fw taster, oF, tostare, IT-feel, handle, touch. A predominant association with the mouth was evident from C14, but the more general meaning survived, for a time as itself but mainly by metaphorical extension. "Good toast" in the sense of good understanding is recorded from 1425 The word became significant and difficult ... in Cub, when it was capitalized as a general quality: "the correcting of their Taste, or Relish in the concerns of Life" (Shaftesbury).... The became equivalent to discrimination: 'the word Taste ... means that quick discerning faculty or power of the mind by which we accurately distinguish the good, bad, or indifferent (Barry, 1784). Raymond Williams, Keywords