degustate

'Will your lordship degustate, for example, this drop of the same divine liquor spilt to-night by your lordship's vassals?'

Merry-Garden and Other Stories Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch 1903

_potage à la bisque_ is irreproachable; the truffles, those black diamonds of the epicure, are the pick of Perigueux; the chambertin is of the old green seal, the sparkling _ai frappé_ to a turn, and, whilst we tranquilly degustate and deliberately imbibe, the influence of that greatest achievement of human genius, a good dinner, percolates through our system, telling upon our moral as upon our physical man.

Blackwood's Edinburgh Magazine - Volume 61, No. 376, February, 1847 Various