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Webster 1913 Edition
Dulcify
Dul′ci-fy
,Verb.
T.
[
imp. & p. p.
Dulcified
; p. pr. & vb. n.
Dulcifying
.] [L.
dulcis
sweet + -fy
: cf. F. dulcifier
.] 1.
(Pharm.)
To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.
Wiseman.
2.
Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please.
As she . . . was further
dulcified
by her pipe of tobacco. Hawthorne.
Webster 1828 Edition
Dulcify
DULCIFY
,Verb.
T.
Definition 2024
dulcify
dulcify
English
Verb
dulcify (third-person singular simple present dulcifies, present participle dulcifying, simple past and past participle dulcified)
- To sweeten the taste of.
- To make sweeter or more pleasant.
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1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
- And there was, to dulcify for her the bath of this evening, the yet sharper contrast with the plight she had just come home in, sopped, shivering, clung to by her clothes.
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1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:
- (obsolete) Toneutralise the acidity of.
- (transitive) To mollify or make peaceful.
- He knew all the things to say to dulcify his mother.