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dulcify, v.|ˈdʌlsɪfaɪ|
[ad. L. dulcificāre, f. dulcis sweet: see -fy. Cf. F. dulcifier (17th c.).]
1. trans. To render sweet to the taste, sweeten.
1599A. M. tr. Gabelhouer's Bk. Physicke 152/1 You may..dulcify it with Suger. 1664Evelyn Pomona Gen. Advt. (1729) 95 One Pound of broad Figs slit, is said to dulcify an Hogs⁓head of cider. 1727Bradley Fam. Dict. s.v. Birch Tree, This Wine..may be dulcify'd with Raisins. 1822Lamb Elia Ser. i. Roast Pig, Intenerating and dulcifying a substance..so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs.
†b. To purify from acidity or other distempered condition. Obs.
1673O. Walker Educ. (1677) 99 Such medicines as dulcify the blood. 1710Brit. Apollo II. Quarterly No. 1. 12/1 Crab's Eyes..Dulcify the Blood.
†2. Old Chem. To wash the soluble salts out of a substance; to neutralize the acidity of.
1610B. Jonson Alch. ii. v, Can you sublime, and dulcefie? calcine? 1662Hobbes 7 Problems vi. Wks. 1845 VII. 48. 1683 Pettus Fleta Min. i. (1686) 126 Pour the Aqua fortis off, and dulcify the Gold with warm water. 1696Phil. Trans. XIX. 350 The Astroites..will not only stir in Vinegar, but also Dulcifie it. 1789J. Keir Dict. Chem. 32/2 Their..oily part, which dulcifies the acid.
†b. intr. for pass.
1686W. Harris tr. Lemery's Course Chym. i. x, The oftner it is sublimed, the more it does dulcify, and becomes proper to apply to flesh, where we would gently corrode.
3. transf. and fig. To sweeten in temper; to render gentle, soften, mollify; to appease.
a1669Trapp in Spurgeon Treas. Dav. Ps. cxix. 122 There are that render the words thus, ‘Dulcify, or, delight thy servant in good’. 1694Crowne Married Beau iv. Dram. Wks. 1874 IV. 301, I am mollified; I will go home, and be dulcified. 1770J. Love Cricket 1 This Title might have been dulcified; and..rendered extremely polite and unintelligible. 1831Blackw. Mag. XXX. 217 Time had not dulcified the tempers of the three elder.
4. intr. To speak in dulcet or bland tones.
1839Lady Lytton Cheveley (ed. 2) III. iii. 87 As she had dulcified sufficiently with..the duchess. 1856Chamb. Jrnl. V. 44 ‘Waiter’, dulcifies an urbane gentleman.
Hence ˈdulcifying vbl. n. and ppl. a.; ˈdulcifier.
1727–51Chambers Cycl., Dulcifying, a term used in physic, for rendering a fluid less acid, and rough. 1816Scott Antiq. i, The pleasure of this discourse had such a dulcifying tendency. 1847Tait's Mag. XIV. 163 A kind of general dulcifier of all acerbities. |