dulcify

[ duhl-suh-fahy ]

verb (used with object)

, dul·ci·fied, dul·ci·fy·ing.

1. to make more agreeable; mollify; appease.
2. to sweeten.

dulcify

/ ˈdʌlsɪˌfaɪ /

verb

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

Derived Forms

• ˌdulcifiˈcation, noun

Other Words From

• dulci·fi·cation noun

Word History and Origins

Origin of dulcify¹

1590–1600; < Late Latin dulcificāre, with -fy for -ficāre

Word History and Origins

Origin of dulcify¹

C16: from Late Latin dulcificāre, from Latin dulcis sweet + facere to make

Example Sentences

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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