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dulcify

[ duhl-suh-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

dulcified, dulcifying.
  1. to make more agreeable; mollify; appease.
  2. to sweeten.


dulcify

/ ˈ»åÊŒ±ô²õɪˌ´Ú²¹Éª /

verb

  1. rare.
    to make pleasant or agreeable
  2. a rare word for sweeten
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Derived Forms

  • ËŒ»å³Ü±ô³¦¾±´Ú¾±Ëˆ³¦²¹³Ù¾±´Ç²Ô, noun
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Other ˜yÐÄvlog Forms

  • »å³Ü±ôc¾±Â·´Ú¾±Â·³¦²¹î€ƒt¾±´Ç²Ô noun
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dulcify1

1590–1600; < Late Latin »å³Ü±ô³¦¾±´Ú¾±³¦Äå°ù±ð, with -fy for -´Ú¾±³¦Äå°ù±ð
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˜yÐÄvlog History and Origins

Origin of dulcify1

C16: from Late Latin »å³Ü±ô³¦¾±´Ú¾±³¦Äå°ù±ð, from Latin dulcis sweet + facere to make
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Example Sentences

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He took mild mercurials, pills of soap, rhubarb, and tartar of vitriol, with soluble tartar and dulcified spirits of nitre in barley water.

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They are dawdling and dulcified to a deplorable degree.

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All the harshness of life will be dulcified; we shall lie dreaming on golden sands, dipping full goblets out of a sea that has been transmuted into lemonade.

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But on this occasion, as she had awakened in an uncommonly pleasant humor, and was further dulcified by her pipe tobacco, she resolved to produce something fine, beautiful, and splendid, rather than hideous and horrible.

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The savage of America, like the savage of the South Sea islands, has learned to dulcify the fecula, by pressing and separating it from its juice.

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