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douceadj. Origin: A borrowing from French. Etymons: French douce, doulx. Etymology: < Anglo-Norman douce, Middle French doulx, Anglo-Norman and Middle French (feminine) douce, doulce (Old French dolz , dulz , dous , (feminine) dolce , dulce , douce ; French doux , feminine douce ) sweet to the taste, pleasing, gentle, dear (all 12th cent. in Old French), (of a person) well-behaved, prudent (14th cent.) < classical Latin dulcis sweet (see dulce adj.). Compare later dulce adj.Compare Old Occitan dolz , dous (12th cent.), Catalan dolç (13th cent.), Spanish dulce (c1200), Portuguese doce (13th cent.), Italian dolce (1200). Found earlier in surnames, e.g. Reginald Dusemay (1319), and earlier still in e.g. Rogerus Ducedame (1275) and Hugo Duce (1200; also called le Duz and Dulcis in contemporary records), although the latter probably reflect currency of the Anglo-Norman rather than the Middle English word. The β. forms reflect Middle French forms with purely graphic medial -l- which show remodelling after classical Latin dulcis (long after the original medial /l/ in Old French had become vocalized). Chiefly Scottish in later use. 1. the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective] α. a1350 in G. L. Brook (1968) 70 Oure dame douse shal sitten hym by. c1380 (1879) l. 1269 We buþ knyȝtes alle y-vere y-born in douce fraunce. ?a1475 (1922) 83 (MED) Oure dowtyr, ryth good and dowse, In to þe tempyl sche must be ledde. 1596 J. Dalrymple tr. J. Leslie (1888) I. 251 Sa douse in exhortatione. 1613 P. Forbes xiv. 131 The douce sound of harpes. 1728 A. Ramsay II. 40 He up douse Stanza lifts. 1857 J. C. Stretton II. ix. 113 Ye're a douce young lassie as ever I set eyes on, and I love the very shadow of ye. 1880 J. E. Watt 68 The rude norlin' blast..Was douce as the westlin' breeze. 1921 4 Aug. A second Cleopatra, on the douce waves of the Allier. 1978 R. H. Jarman iv. 314 Death had stolen none of her douce beauty and sweetness. 2012 (Nexis) 29 Sept. (Weekend section) 6 The sun broke through the cloods, and the douce song o' a laverock filled me wi' gledness. a1425 (a1399) Forme of Cury (BL Add.) 9 in C. B. Hieatt & S. Butler (1985) 99 Dresse it forth, and cast þerto powdour douce. (Harl. 221) 129 Dowce egyr, or sowre an[d] swete menglyd to-gedyr, mulsus. 1526 W. Bonde ii. sig. Giiii Whan..sommer draweth nere, it [sc. an apple] waxeth melowe, douce & pleasaunt. 1542 A. Borde xxi. sig. K.iiiv Peares..melow and doulce. 1652 Norton's Ordinal of Alchemy v, in E. Ashmole 74 Of Sapors there be fully Nyne;..As Sharpe tast, Unctuous, and Sower..As Bitinge tast, Saltish and Weerish also... As Bitter tast, under Sower, and Douce. 1721 A. Ramsay I. 21 Then farewell Maggy douce and fell, Of Brewers a' thou boor the Bell. 1728 A. Ramsay II. 235 I've given a douse Advice and plain. 1776 C. Keith 22 The lads and lasses a' grow douse, And spare their din. 1816 W. Scott Old Mortality iv, in 1st Ser. II. 69 A douce woman she was, civil to the customers. 1850 J. W. Carlyle 2 Sept. (1883) II. 129 I think the new servant will do; she looks douce, intelligent. 1868 A. Helps I. vii. 195 Realmah and the Ainah talked on in the douce, quiet way. 1913 T. R. Barnett xx. 187 The storms of centuries, over-sweeping her plain Scots face, have invested it with a douce grey dignity that is now her rarest charm. 1951 19 Jan. 32/4 Miss Smith deals briefly and sensibly with this vexed subject... Mr. McLaren, too, is a douce body. 2017 (Nexis) 18 July Scotland is rather a douce, old-fashioned kind of country, and likes it that way. Derivatives 1527 T. Wolsey in (1830) I. 195 I think convenient..Your Grace shuld handle her both gently and doulcely. 1786 R. Burns 29 An' dousely manage our affairs In Parliament. 1850 R. Simpson ii. 20 Mr. Hislop was riding doucely along this track. 1920 G. P. Dunbar 30 Or when tae kirk I doucely hie, An' settle doon wi' thankfu' sigh Tae ha'e a nap upo' the sly. 2011 ‘A. Scott’ v. 76 ‘I'll address her as I please,’ Comyn said... ‘Or d'ye think ye can make me speak doucely?’ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] 1518 H. Watson tr. xxxvii. sig. H.iijv By the grete wysdome & doulcenesse that remayned in hym, he had subdued & ouercome his euyl wyllers. 1621 S. Ward 14 Some luscious delight, yea, a kinde of rauishing doucenesse there is in studying good Bookes. 1822 J. Galt ix. 191 A sky-blue silk dress..was surely not in any thing like a becoming concordance with the natural douceness of my character. 1933 May 109 That melancholy douceness and repression that were supposedly the hallmark of our race two generations ago. 2014 28 Feb. 44/1 A wide range of work, from apparent rural douceness to raw urban savagery. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online June 2022). † doucev.Origin: Formed within English, by conversion. Etymon: douce adj. Etymology: < douce adj. Compare addulce v. Obsolete. the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > sweeten [verb (transitive)] the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > sweetening > sweeten [verb (transitive)] a1475 (Sloane) (1862) 7 With sugur candy, þou may hit dowce. ?a1475 Noble Bk. Cookry in at Doucen Put ther to sugur till they [sc. pears] be douced as ye think best. the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > make (more) sensitive or tender [verb (transitive)] > specifically of the heart 1593 Queen Elizabeth I tr. Boethius De Consolatione Philosophiæ in (1899) i. pr. v. 16 That such as by growing paynes in swelling hath bene hardenid..with a soft touch be doulced [L. mollescant]. 1600 P. Holland tr. Livy xxiii. xvi. 484 The yong mans stout heart was so doulced, mollified, and easie to bee wrought [L. mollitus]. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, September 2018; most recently modified version published online December 2018). <  adj.a1350 v.a1475 |
