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(en noun)

(informal) especially when meaning'' test ''or in compound terms.

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* 1667', the Fruit / Of that Forbidden Tree, whose mortal '''tast / Brought Death into the World — John Milton, ''Paradise Lost , Book 1, ll. 1-3