dulcify
Americanverb (used with object)
-
to make more agreeable; mollify; appease.
-
to sweeten.
verb
-
rare to make pleasant or agreeable
-
a rare word for sweeten
Other Word Forms
- dulcification noun
Etymology
Origin of dulcify
1590–1600; < Late Latin dulcificāre, with -fy for -ficāre
Example Sentences
Examples are provided to illustrate real-world usage of words in context. Any opinions expressed do not reflect the views of Dictionary.com.
He took mild mercurials, pills of soap, rhubarb, and tartar of vitriol, with soluble tartar and dulcified spirits of nitre in barley water.
From Project Gutenberg
They are dawdling and dulcified to a deplorable degree.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
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.
From Project Gutenberg
Definitions and idiom definitions from Dictionary.com Unabridged, based on the Random House Unabridged Dictionary, © Random House, Inc. 2023
Idioms from The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.
