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▪ I. † dulce, a. (adv.) Obs.|dʌls|
Also 6 dulse.
[ad. L. dulcis sweet: or a refashioning of douce after the L., through the intermediate doulce.]
1. Sweet to the taste or smell.
1500–20Dunbar Poems xlviii. 47 This garth, most dulce and redolent Off herb and flour. 1597J. Payne Royal Exch. 41 To make it dulce and pleasant in the taste.
2. Sweet to the eye, ear, or feelings; pleasing, agreeable, soothing.
1501Douglas Pal. Hon. i. xliv, Thair musick tones war mair cleir And dulcer than..Orpheus harp. 1545T. Raynalde Byrth Mankynde Prol. (1634) 8 Dulse and sugred eloquence. 1572J. Jones Bathes Buckstone 4 a, The dulce, or delectable Bathes, or Welles of Buckstone. a1605Montgomerie Misc. Poems xvii. 57 With blinkis dulce and debonair. 1659D. Pell Impr. of Sea 259 Of that sugred and dulce aspect. [1709Strype Ann. Ref. I. xliv. 479 Which two means, if they should seem to him and his associates too dulce.]
B. adv. Sweetly.
1549Compl. Scot. vi. 64 The musician amphion..sang sa dulce, quhil that the stanis mouit. a1562G. Cavendish Wolsey (1893) 87 My lords mynstrells, who played there so connyngly and dulce.
▪ II. dulce, n.
[In 1 f. prec. adj.; in 2 = Sp. dulce.]
†1. Sweetness, gentleness. Obs.
1659D. Pell Impr. Sea B vj, The goodness, candor, and dulce of your nature. 1728North Mem. Musick (1846) 88 His lesser peices imitated the dulce of Lute-lessons.
‖2. A sweet substance; sweet wine, must.
1844G. W. Kendall Narr. Santa Fé Exped. II. i. 31 Among the higher order of Mexicans the dinner finishes with fruits, dulces or sweetmeats. 1846R. Ford Gatherings from Spain xi. 130 The sweet hams of the Alpujarras..are called dulces or sweet, because scarcely any salt is used in the curing. 1870J. Orton Andes & Amazons ii. xxxviii. (1876) 518 [Cacao] yielding, besides chocolate.. a wine, and a dulce. 1923J. Hergesheimer Bright Shawl 127 Minute fragile dulces, cakes, glazed in green and pink, and ornamental confections of almond paste.
▪ III. † dulce, v. Obs.
[Refashioned from douce, doulce v.: cf. dulce a.]
trans. To sweeten; to soften, soothe, appease. Hence dulcing vbl. n.
1579–80North Plutarch (1676) 83 To dulce and soften the hardned hearts of the multitude. 1603Holland Plutarch's Mor. 54 (R.) For the dulcing, taming, and appeasing of the soul. 1610― Camden's Brit. i. 68 This Albinus..dulceth and kindly intreateth the men.
▪ IV. dulce
var. form of dulse. |