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dulcet, a. and n.|ˈdʌlsɪt|
Forms: α. 5–7 doucet, 5 dowcet; β. 5 dulcette, 6 doulcet(e, (6–7 dulced, 7 doulced), 6– dulcet.
[A refashioning of doucet (from F.), after L. dulcis sweet: cf. It. dolcetto, dim. of dolce. See also doucet.]
†1. Sweet to the taste or smell. Obs. or arch.
αc1430Two Cookery-bks. 33 Seson it with Sugre, & loke þat it be poynant & doucet. c1440Promp. Parv. 128/1 Dowcet mete, or swete bake mete. c1475Partenay 972. 1664 Evelyn Kal. Hort. (1729) 196 Doucet Pippins.
β1398Trevisa Barth. De. P.R. v. xl. (1495) 156 The other partyes..arne the swetter and more dulcette. 1505Tower of Doctr. 49 in Percy's Reliq., Thys dulcet water. 1528Paynel Salerne's Regim. H ij, All doulcet wynes. 1623Cockeram, Dulced, sweet. 1667Milton P.L. v. 347 And from sweet kernels prest She tempers dulcet creams. 1742Shenstone Schoolmistress 312 Whose art did first these dulcet cakes display. 1854Longfellow Catawba Wine vi, But Catawba wine Has a taste more divine, More dulcet, delicious, and dreamy.
2. Sweet to the eye, ear, or feelings; pleasing, agreeable; soothing, gentle. Now chiefly of sounds.
α14..Prose Leg. in Anglia VIII. 178 Wiþ doucet not and ryme. c1475Partenay 877 Doucet songes hurde of briddes enuiron. Ibid. 1008 Fair melusine, the suete doucet made [= maid].
β1477Norton Ord. Alch. v. in Ashm. (1652) 53 With doulced [MS. in margin dowcet] speech. 1503Hawes Examp. Virt. v. (Arb.) 20 Her delycate and doulcete complacence. 1567Drant Horace, Ep. to Mæcenas D iij, He will see the my dulcet frinde. 1607T. Walkington Opt. Glass xi. 118 It is a dulcet [ed. 1664 dulcid] humour. 1667Milton P.L. i. 712 Dulcet Symphonies and voices sweet. c1750Shenstone Elegies vii. 52 Still to her dulcet murmurs not a foe. 1837Disraeli Venetia ii. iii, Her dulcet tones seemed even sweeter than before.
3. Comb., as dulcet-chinking, dulcet-eyed, dulcet-streaming.
a1784Johnson Parody Transl. Medea ii, With dulcet-streaming sound. a1821Keats Fancy 81 Dulcet-eyed as Ceres' daughter. 1864Sir F. Palgrave Norm. & Eng. III. 23 Five dulcet-chinking pennies.
B. n.
†1. A dulcet note or tone. Obs.
1575Laneham Let. (1871) 61 Mine Italian dulcets, my dutch houez, my doobl releas.
†2. ? = doucet 3. Obs.
1583Stanyhurst æneis i. (Arb.) 24 Thee stags vpbreaking they slit to the dulcet or inchepyn.
3.
†a. A wind instrument: see doucet 2. Obs.
b. An organ stop resembling the Dulciana, but an octave higher in pitch; = dulciana principal.
1876J. Hiles Catech. Organ ix, Dulcet, a delicate stop of 4 feet, small scale metal pipes. 1880E. J. Hopkins in Grove Dict. Mus. II. 598 In the organ made..Green..included [in the Swell] not only a Dulciana but also its octave, the Dulcet or Dulciana Principal.
Hence ˈdulcetly adv., ˈdulcetness.
1528Paynel Salerne's Regim. H b, The doulce wynes (for theyr doulcetnes) are vehemently drawen. 1536Primer Hen. VIII, lf. 149 Jesu, the author of buxomnes..Of dulcednes the well of grace. a1555Bradford Wks. (Parker Soc.) 338 The..short time that we have to use them should assuage their dulcetness. 1832L. Hunt Sonnet Poems 209 His brow with patient pain dulcetly sour. |