Roget's Thesaurus of English Words and Phrases by Peter Mark Roget

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].