dulcify

American  

[duhl-suh-fahy] / ˈdʌl səˌfaɪ /

verb (used with object)

dulcified, dulcifying

1. to make more agreeable; mollify; appease.

2. to sweeten.

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dulcify British  

/ ˈdʌlsɪˌfaɪ /

verb

1. rare to make pleasant or agreeable

2. a rare word for sweeten

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Other Word Forms

• dulcification noun

Etymology

Origin of dulcify

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

Example Sentences

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 Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 by Humboldt, Alexander von

Your lato, azoch, zernich, chibrit, heautarit," and another asks:—   "Can you sublime and dulcify? calcine?

From Halleck's New English Literature by Halleck, Reuben Post

Come, let us begin the cure; and, through the exhilarating sweetness of harmony, let us dulcify, lenify, and pacify the acrimony of his spirits, which, I see, are ready to be inflamed.

From Monsieur De Pourceaugnac by Wall, Charles Heron

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.

From Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story by Beerbohm, Max, Sir