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the relish of any thing on the palate is perceived.—Bees de¬ 
light more in one flower than another, and therefore have 
taste. Bacon. —Sensibility; perception. 
Music in the close, 
As the last taste of sweets is sweetest last. Shakspeare. 
That sensation which all things taken into the mouth give 
particularly to the tongue, the papillae of which are the prin¬ 
cipal instruments hereof. Quincy. —Though there be a great 
variety of tastes, yet, as in smells, they have only some few 
general names. Locke. —Intellectual relish or discernment. 
—Seeing they pretend no quarrel at other psalms which are 
in like manner appointed to be daily read, why do these so 
much offend and displease their tastes ? Hooker. —An 
essay; a trial; an experiment. Not in use. —I hope, for 
my brother’s justification, he wrote this as an essay or taste 
of my virtue. Shakspeare. —A small portion given as a 
specimen.'—They thought it not safe to resolve, till they had 
a taste of the people’s inclination. Bacon. 
TASTED, ad). Having a particular relish.—Coleworts 
prosper exceedingly, and are better tasted, if watered with 
salt water. Bacon. 
TA'STEFUL, ad). High relished; savoury.—A sharp 
kind of sourness in sauces is esteemed pleasing and tasteful. 
Bp. Hall. 
TA'STELESS, adj. Having no power of perceiving taste. 
Having no relish or power of stimulating the palate; insipid. 
—By depurating chemical oils, and reducing them to an 
elementary simplicity, they could never be made tasteless. 
Boyle .—Having no power of giving pleasure; insipid.—If 
by his manner of writing a critic is heavy and tasteless, I 
throw aside his criticisms. Addison. —Having no intellec¬ 
tual gust.—With all his faults, [as a prose-writer,] and ex¬ 
clusive of his character as a poet, he [Milton] must ever re¬ 
main the only learned author of that tasteless age in which 
he flourished. Orrery. 
TA'STELESSNESS, s. Insipidity; want of relish.— 
They are tainted with that creature vanity, a tastc/essness 
(as it were) that is in all created pleasure or profit external. 
Whitlock .—Want of perception of taste. Want of intellec¬ 
tual relish.—The work of writing notes is performed by 
railing at the stupidity, negligence, ignorance, and asinine 
tastelessness of the former editors. Swift. 
TA'STER, s. [ tasteur, Fr.] One who takes the first 
essay of food. 
Fair hope! our earlier heaven ! by thee 
Young time is taster to eternity. Crashaw. 
A dram cup. Ainsworth. 
TASTNESS, a cape on the north of the island of Sanday. 
Lat. 59. 10. N. long. 2. 21. W. 
TA'STY, adj. Expressed or done so as to shew intellec¬ 
tual relish. A modern word. 
TAT, an insular rock in the Baltic, forming a part of the 
group of the Ert Holmer, and lying about 700 feet to the 
north of the petty isle of Graesholm. 
TATA YOUBA, a name used by some for the tree which 
yields what the dyers call the fustic, or yellow wood used 
in dyeing. 
TATA, or Dotis, a large town in the west of Hungary, 
situated on a height in the midst of marshes; 64 miles east- 
south-east of Presburg. It contains 8600 inhabitants, and is 
divided into two parts called Dotis and Tovaris. 
TATAAG, a black fish much esteemed by the rhode 
islanders. 
TATAR, a fort of Borneo, erected by the Dutch in 1709. 
It is a dependency on Java, and is siluated about 4 degrees 
north from the east end of it, on a fine river; and, from its 
commerce and great population, is of considerable impor¬ 
tance. 
TATARBASAR, or Tatar Bazargik, a considerable 
inland town of European Turkey, in Bulgaria, near the Ma- 
rizza, the ancient Hebrus. It is situated on the great road 
from Constantinople to Belgrade, or rather from Philippo- 
poli to Sophia. It is little visited by travellers; but is said 
to contain several mosques, baths, and other good buildings, 
TAT 
with about 10,000 inhabitants; 14 miles north-north-west 
of Philippopoli. 
TATARBINAR, a small town in the south-west of Euro¬ 
pean Russia, in Bessarabia; 70 miles south of Bender. 
TATCHBROOK, Bishop’s and Mallory, two united 
parishes of England, in Warwickshire; 3) miles south-east 
Warwick. Population 574. 
TATHAM, a parish of England, in Lancashire; 11| miles 
north-east-by-east of Lancaster, Population 676. 
TATHWELL, a parish of England, in Lincolnshire; 2J 
miles south-west-by-south of Louth. 
TATIAN, a native of Assyria, from which circumstance 
he is sometimes called “the Assyrian,” and an ecclesiastical 
writer, who, according to Cave, flourished about the year 
172. He was originally a heathen, and by profession a 
sophist, and teacher of rhetoric. His reading appears to 
have been extensive, and he is allowed to have been well 
acquainted with Grecian literature and philosophy. He 
appears to have written a considerable number of books, 
one of which, still extant in Greek, and entitled “ Oratio ad 
Graecos,” or Oration against the Gentiles, was either an 
apology for Christianity, or an attack on Heathenism. This 
was first printed at Zurich in 1546, with the Latin version 
of Conrad Gesner, it is annexed to the edition of Justin 
Martyr’s works, and those of other fathers: but the best 
edition is that of Worth, Greek and Latin, Ox on. 1700, 
8vo. His design in this work, which displays great learning, 
was to prove that the Greeks were not the inventors of any 
of the sciences, but that they were indebted for their ac¬ 
quaintance with them to those wdiom nevertheless they 
denominated Barbarians. This work, according to Brucker, 
everywhere breaths the spirit of the Oriental philosophy, the 
leading tenets of which he details; and he seems to have 
adopted several of the opinions of Plato, and of the Alex¬ 
andrian Platonists, concerning the creation of the world by 
the Logos, and its animation by a subordinate spirit; con¬ 
cerning the existence of demons in material vehicles, who 
occupy the aerial regions, and that of aeons, who reside 
above the stars. He also held with Plato the imperfection 
of matter as the cause of evil, and thenee he inferred the 
meritoriousness of rising above corporeal appetites and pas¬ 
sions. Another work of Tatian, cited by St. Clement, was 
entitled “Perfection according to the Saviour,” in which 
he argued against marriage. Eusebius cites another work 
composed by Tatian, which was a “ Book of difficult 
Questions, for the explication of several obscure places of 
Scripture.” We have also in Latin a work ascribed to Ta¬ 
tian, called, “ Harmony” or “ Dia-Tessaron” of the Four. 
But some approved writers have doubted whether we have 
one copy of Tatian’s Harmony now extant. Dr. Lardner, 
however, inclines to the opinion, that we are in possession 
of this work. 
TATISCHEVA, a fortress of Asiatic Russia, in the go¬ 
vernment of Oufa, on the Oural; 28 miles west of Orenburg. 
TATISM KOH, a mountain of Irak, in Persia; 12 miles 
north of Koom. 
TATIUS (Achilles), a Greek writer of Alexandria, is 
supposed to have lived in the latter part of the third century. 
He is known to us as the author of a work on the Sphere, 
of which there remains a fragment, being an introduction 
to a commentary on the Phenomena of Aratus. A copy 
of this from a MS. in the Florentine library, by Peter Vic- 
torius, was printed. It was afterwards translated into Latin 
by Pelau, under the title of “Isagoga in Phenomena Arati.” 
We learn from Suidas, that Tatius also wrote “ Erotics,” in 
which he includes “ the Loves of Leucippe and Clitophon." 
This work is preserved, and affords one of the examples of 
Greek romance. The Latin version of it was made by An- 
nibal Cruceius, and published at Basil in 1554. The latest 
edition of this piece is that of Bodem, Greek and Latin, 
Lips. 1776, 8vo. It is elegantly written, but of a licentious 
cast; and hence it has been inferred that the author was a 
heathen, when he composed it; but Suidas affirms, that he 
afterwards became a Christian, and attained to episcopacy. 
TATMAGOUCHE, or Tatamagouche, a place in 
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