dulcify
/ˈdʌlsɪfʌɪ
/verb (dulcifies, dulcifying, dulcified) [with object] rare
1Sweeten: cider pap dulcified with molasses...
- Digest with a gentle heat, then draw off 10 galls. in a bath heat, and dulcify with fine sugar.
- This one, however, dulcifies with water to yield camphor and a bit of Hessian from the bungcloth.
- This drops as the honeycomb; it dulcifies and sweetens the waters of Marah; it is better than life; it has a hyper-hyperbole in it.
1.1Calm or soothe: the exquisite melody dulcifies whatever pain the singer’s words express...
- The instrument is, in effect, played by the breeze, making sounds akin to an oboe-like moaning and the dulcifying strum of a harp.
- In many of them the assertive bite of their wild ancestors has been sufficiently dulcified to obscure their relationship.
- The current of the river dulcifies as if in pacific obeisance to the night.
Derivatives
dulcification
/ noun ...- It deserves of being consumed not only as a dulcification, in substitution of the refined sugar and as a help in the respiratory affections, but to enter stably in the daily diet.
Origin
Late 16th century (in the sense 'sweeten'): from Latin dulcificare 'sweeten', from dulcis 'sweet'.
Rhymes
- workload
- work-loom
- workman
- workmanlike
- workmanly
- workman's club
- workmanship
- workmaster
- workmate
- work measurement
- workmen's club
- work-minded
- work-mindedness
- workmistress
- work name
- work of art
- work one's ass (butt, etc.) off
- work one's fingers to the bone
- work one's passage
- work one's way through university (or college, etc.)
- work one's way up
- work one's will on/upon
- work (or do) wonders
- work (or run) oneself into the ground
- work out