Definition of "nauseate"
nauseate
verb
third-person singular simple present nauseates, present participle nauseating, simple past and past participle nauseated
Quotations
[…] can you, will you pronounce it ill meant, at least of him, when anxious for his son’s morals, with a view to form him to virtue, and inspire him with a fixed, a rational contempt for vice, he condescended to be his master of the ceremonies, and led him by the hand through the most noted bawdy-houses in town, where he took care he should be familiarized with all those scenes of debauchery, so fit to nauseate a good taste?
1749, John Cleland, Fanny Hill, Letter the Second
(obsolete, transitive) To reject or spit (something) out because it causes a feeling of nausea.
Quotations
[…] he made a Sign to me, that the Salt was not good to eat, and putting a little into his own Mouth, he seem’d to nauseate it, and would spit and sputter at it, washing his Mouth with fresh Water after it […]
1719 May 6 (Gregorian calendar), [Daniel Defoe], The Life and Strange Surprizing Adventures of Robinson Crusoe, […], 3rd edition, London: […] W[illiam] Taylor […], published 1719, page 251
In Children and delicate Persons, who are apt to nauseate this Remedy, I have with Success given it mix’d up with thin Chocolate; which, if sufficiently sweetened, disguises it better than any thing I know of.
1753, J. Wall, A letter from J. Wall M.D. to Edward Wilmot M.D.F.R.S. and Physician to His Majesty, concerning the Use of the Peruvian Bark in the Small Pox, Proceedings of the Royal Society of London, 1753, p. 594
[…] the people appear to be in the unhappy state of a patient whose palate nauseates the medicine best calculated for the cure of his disease, and seem anxious to continue in the full enjoyment of their chattering epidemick.
1807 September 19, Washington Irving, “From Mustapha Rub-a-Dub Keli Khan”, in Salmagundi, volume 2, number 4, page 286
(obsolete, transitive, figurative) To be disgusted by (something).
Quotations
Old Age, with silent pace, comes creeping on,Nauseates the Praise, which in her Youth she won,And hates the Muse by which she was undone.
1692, “The Seventh Satyr”, in Charles Dryden, transl., edited by John Dryden, The Satires of Decimus Junius Juvenalis Translated into English Verse, 3rd edition, London: Jacob Tonson, published 1702, page 137
What a prospect for her, then, with our present race of young men! their frivolous fickleness nauseates whatever they can reach; they have a weak shame of asserting, or even listening to what is right, and a shallow pride in professing and performing what is wrong.
1796, Frances Burney, Camilla, London: T. Payne, T. Cadell & W. Davies, Volume 2, Book 3, Chapter 7, p. 151
The organs that are gratified with the taste of sickly veal bled into a palsy, crammed fowls, and dropsical brawn, pease without substance, peaches without taste, and pine-apples without flavour, will certainly nauseate the native, genuine, and salutary taste of Welch beef, Banstead mutton, and barn-door fowls, whose juices are concocted by a natural digestion, and whoe flesh is consolidated by free air and exercise.
1798, Oliver Goldsmith, Essays and Criticisms, London: J. Johnson, Volume II, Essay 13, p. 144