to taste; to try (food); to experience; (literary) ever; once

to taste a patient's excrement (a form of medical examination, seen as an act of loyalty or filial piety); to suck up to sb; to kiss ass

to taste (fresh food or a delicacy); (fig.) to try sth new

to experience one's full share of sorrows (idiom)

to proceed by trial and error; to learn by making mistakes