单词 | dulce |
释义 | dulcen.1ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > sweet wine honey-teareOE sweet winec1386 bastard?c1425 dulce1601 brown bastard1609 dulce1849 vino dolce1902 vino dulce1911 vin doux1958 sticky1982 1601 P. Holland tr. Pliny Hist. World I. xiv. ix. 417 There is another kind of wine naturally sweet, which in Provance & Languedoc is called Dulce [i. sweet] [L. dulce] and namely, in the territorie of the Vocontians. 1853 A. Soyer Pantropheon xxviii. 330 The Dulce wine was obtained by drying the grapes in the sun for three days, and crushing them with the feet on the fourth, at the time of greatest heat. 1877 A. M. Wilson Wines of Bible 100 The reference is to a species of wine occupying an intermediate place between the dulces, previously described, and the nobilia, or generous wines. 1877 A. M. Wilson Wines of Bible 101 The wines of medium quality..were assigned an intermediate place between the dulcia and the nobilia. 2. Sweetness, gentleness; (with the) that which is pleasing or delightful. Usually contrasted with utile (and compare usefull in quot. 1654). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [noun] lustfulnessa900 sweetnessc900 sootnessc1000 unloathfulnessc1350 sugarc1374 pleasancec1395 agreeability?c1400 dulcourc1429 pleasure1497 pleasantnessa1500 douceness1518 dulceness?1526 dulcetness1528 pleasancy1545 ungrieffulness1556 acceptableness1565 rose water1584 pleasingnessa1586 amenity?1591 pleasing1591 acceptance1594 suavity1594 prettiness1604 jucundity1620 dulcity1623 pleasurableness1626 agreeablenessa1631 placency1639 acceptability1647 dulce1654 amicableness1667 pleasurability1793 niceness1809 dulciness1828 enjoyableness1868 Gemütlichkeit1892 sweetness and light1927 1654 R. Whitlock Ζωοτομία sig. a Usefull I confesse they are, but wanting the Dulce, Pleasure of variety, and convenience of more contracted brevity. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος Ep. Ded. sig. b5 The goodness, candor, and dulce of your nature. 1792 J. Austen Loiterer 352 A periodical writer will seldom be long a favourite with the public, who does not take care to introduce a variety of subjects into his work, and mix as much as possible the utile with the dulce. 1847 Christian Wreath 152 The substantial grains, and the delicious fruits..those in which, with some dulce, there is much utile, and those in which, with some utile, there is much dulce. 1885 J. H. Riddell Berna Boyle 7 She had that hard and battered appearance it is competent for even quite young women to assume who have always cultivated the utile to the exclusion of the dulce. There was not much dulce about Miss Muir. 1938 R. G. Collingwood Princ. Art v. 83 Mr. Galsworthy began his career by putting so much utile and so little dulce into his stage-puddings that only the very determined stomachs could digest them at all. 1983 P. G. Adams Travel Lit. (2015) iv. 109 Nearly all travelers who hoped to publish, and perhaps most of their readers, were..aware of the need to mix dulce with utile. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dulcen.2 1. In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: a sweet thing to eat, a sweet. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > [noun] confection1393 sweetmeat?a1500 junkery1509 conceit1525 banqueta1533 junketry1599 sweet1660 spice1674 knick-knack1682 confectionery1769 confiture1802 candy?1809 knick-knackery1813 mithai1824 dulce1834 sweet-stuff1835 bouchées1846 ket1979 the world > food and drink > food > dishes and prepared food > confections or sweetmeats > sweets > [noun] > a sweet dredgec1350 confection1393 sugar-meat1586 trinket1587 confectionary1599 soot-meat1614 dulcid1694 sweetie1721 goody-goody1745 bon-bon1796 confiture1802 candy?1809 sweetmeat1812 sucker1823 dulce1834 lokum1845 goody1847 sweet1851 dragée1853 lolly1854 1834 W. S. Ruschenberger Three Years in Pacific ii. iii. 103 ‘Dulces’ or sweetmeats of various kinds are served during the evening... A large shallow dish of ‘dulces’, placed on a silver salver with a number of small forks of the same metal, is offered round to the company. 1876 J. Orton Andes & Amazon (ed. 3) ii. xxxviii. 518 [Cacao] yielding, besides chocolate..a wine, and a dulce. 1923 J. Hergesheimer Bright Shawl 127 Minute fragile dulces, cakes, glazed in green and pink, and ornamental confections of almond paste. 2011 Gastronomica 11 92/2 The Franciscan sisters at the Santa Maria del Socorro Convent in Seville bake traditional dulces that reflect the lasting Moorish influence on Spanish cuisine. 2. In Spain and Spanish-speaking countries: sweet wine; (also) fortified must used for sweetening. ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > drink > manufacture of alcoholic drink > wine-making > [noun] > must mustOE stum1679 dulce1849 mosto1875 the world > food and drink > drink > intoxicating liquor > wine > types of wine > [noun] > sweet wine honey-teareOE sweet winec1386 bastard?c1425 dulce1601 brown bastard1609 dulce1849 vino dolce1902 vino dulce1911 vin doux1958 sticky1982 1849 G. W. Hughes in Rep. Secretary of War (1850) 32 in U.S. Congress. Serial Set (31st Congr., 1st Sess.: House of Representatives Doc. 32) X The wines are of three kinds—the carlone, the vino bianco, and the dulce: the first is a kind of claret Burgundy, very delicate and palatable..and the third resembles the muscadel. 1873 Jrnl. Soc. Arts 5 Sept. 802/1 The most genuine sweetening material is mosto preserved in spirit, termed dulce. To produce the best dulce either Pedro Ximenes, the sweetest grapes, or palomino, is selected. 1873 Temperance Record 6 Dec. 580/3 Sweetness is imparted by the addition of ‘dulce’,—that is, must, frequently made from grapes dried for some days in the sun, to which one-sixth of its volume of spirit, of the strength of forty degrees by Carrier's alcoholometer, has been added. 1999 J. Jeffs Wines of Spain x. 328 Dulce. Sweet wine with 600 grams per litre of sugar but more usually 150 to 225 grams. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dulceadj.adv. Originally Scottish. Now rare. A. adj. 1. Sweet in taste or smell. Also in figurative context. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] sweetc888 sootc950 doucea1350 sweetlya1350 softa1398 lusciousc1420 dulcet1440 mellite?1440 sugarishc1450 dulce1508 ambrosiana1522 figgy?1549 nut-sweet1586 nectaredc1595 dulcid1596 marmalady1602 fat1610 unsharp1611 unsour1611 marmalade1617 dulcorous1676 dulceous1688 saccharaceous1689 sugar-candyish1852 saccharic1945 1508 [implied in: W. Kennedy Flyting (Chepman & Myllar) in Poems W. Dunbar (1998) I. 211 I..dulcely_[1568 dulely] drank of eloquence the fontayne. (at dulcely adv.)]. a1513 W. Dunbar Poems (1998) I. 164 This garth, most dulce and redolent Off herb and flour. 1554 D. Lindsay Dialog Experience & Courteour i. sig. D.iv The balmye dulce odouris Quhilk did proceid, frome fragrant flowris. 1597 J. Payne Royall Exchange 41 To make it dulce and pleasant in the taste. 1650 tr. Joannes de Mediolano Regimen Sanitatis Salerni (new ed.) 42 The dulce Wines, through their dulcetnesse are vehemently drawn of the members, wherewith Nature rejoyceth. 1698 Delectable Little Hist. (new ed.) 18 She ate of them [sc. apples] three and thought them right dulce. 1962 tr. S. Da Gama in Atlas Jan. 40/1 By morning nothing remains but a faint dulce taste of elegy. 2. Pleasing to the eye, ear, or feelings; gentle, soft; delightful. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adjective] winsomea900 sweetc900 likingeOE i-quemec950 lieflyOE winlyOE hereOE thankfulc1000 merryOE queemc1175 beina1200 willea1200 leesomec1200 savouryc1225 estea1250 i-wilc1275 winc1275 welcomea1300 doucea1350 well-pleasingc1350 acceptablea1382 pleasablea1382 pleasanta1382 pleaseda1382 acceptedc1384 amiablec1384 well-likinga1387 queemfulc1390 flattering1393 pleasinga1398 well-queeminga1400 comelyc1400 farrandc1400 greable1401 goodlyc1405 amicable?a1425 placablec1429 amene1433 winful1438 listyc1440 dulcet1445 agreeablec1450 favourousc1485 sweetly?a1500 pleasureful?c1502 dulcea1513 grate1523 prettya1529 plausible1541 jolly1549 dulcoratec1550 toothsome1551 pleasurable1557 tickling1558 suavec1560 amenous1567 odoriferous?1575 perfumed1580 glada1586 tickle1593 pleasurous1595 favoursome1601 dulcean1606 gratifying1611 Hyblaean1614 gratulatea1616 arrident1616 solacefula1618 pleasantable1619 placid1628 contentsome1632 sapid1640 canny1643 gustful1647 peramene1657 pergrateful1657 tastefula1659 complacent1660 placentiousa1661 gratifactorya1665 bland1667 suavious1669 palatable1683 placent1683 complaisant1710 nice1747 tasty1796 sweetsome1799 titbit1820 connate1836 cunning1843 mooi1850 gemütlich1852 sympathique1859 congenial1878 sympathetic1900 sipid1908 onkus1910 sympathisch1911 society > leisure > the arts > music > musical sound > [adjective] > melodious or harmonious sweetc900 merryOE softc1230 accordanta1325 well-soundingc1350 cordant1382 sootc1385 songfula1400 melodiousa1425 sugaredc1430 well-toneda1500 tunable1504 dulcea1513 equivalenta1513 consonant?1521 harmonicala1527 harmoniousc1550 consorteda1586 Orphean1593 concentful1595 melodical1596 sweet-recording1598 tuneful1598 sirenical1599 high-tuned1603 nightingale-like1611 soundful?1615 according1626 modulaminous1637 undiscording1645 canorous1646 symphonious1652 concinnous1654 consonous1654 harmonic1667 sirenica1704 symphonial1773 concentual1782 chantant1785 Memnonian1800 melodized1807 Orphic1817 undiscordant1819 concentuous1850 fluting1852 melodic1871 well-orchestrated1872 jarless1876 tuny1885 tunesome1890 a1513 J. Irland Meroure of Wyssdome (1926) I. 32 Thou may wndirstand that thar is nane sa dulce sang nore so sueit, as this that the sone of God Jhesus..first maid. a1525 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1923) I. 326 Dulce teching and prechingis. ?1553 (c1501) G. Douglas Palice of Honour (London) i. l. 523 in Shorter Poems (1967) 40 Thair musik, tones war mair cleir And dulcer than..Orpheus harpe. 1572 J. Jones Benefit Bathes of Buckstones f. 4v The dulce, or delectable Bathes, or Welles of Buckstone. c1600 A. Montgomerie Poems (2000) I. 39 With blinks dulce and debonair. 1659 D. Pell Πελαγος 259 Of that sugred and dulce aspect. 1709 J. Strype Ann. Reformation xliv. 479 Which two means, if they should seem to him and his associates too dulce. 1858 Cooper's Clarksburg Reg. 9 Apr. The howling of Rome shall be as the dulce sounds of dulcimedes. 1911 East Oregonian (Pendleton, Oregon) 3 Feb. (Evening ed.) 4/3 If dulce voices ask for me don't scratch your auburn dome. 2005 Trinidad Guardian 24 Nov. a43/5 Although Alcazar's signature dulce voice was revered by all parang aficionados, she never won the prestigious title. Sweetly; harmoniously. Obsolete. ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > pleasure > quality of being pleasant or pleasurable > [adverb] sweetlyc900 queemlyOE lustly971 winlyc1000 sootlya1125 to (a person's) queemc1175 lustilya1225 avenantlya1375 pleasinglya1398 queema1400 beinc1400 farrandlyc1400 pleasantlyc1400 pleasantlya1425 queemfullyc1425 thankfullyc1480 greablyc1500 dulcely1508 dulcea1525 pleasant1553 agreeably?1567 pleasurably1580 sugarly1587 flattering1597 sweet1597 attractively1640 well-pleasingly1645 welcomely1646 flatteringly1661 relishingly1677 satisfyingly1743 sweetsome1799 smilingly1806 dulcetly1810 gratifyingly1822 honeyedly1832 enjoyably1877 suavely1883 congenially1884 a fair treat1884 a1525 Bk. Sevyne Sagis 2571 in W. A. Craigie Asloan MS (1925) II. 82 Ane nychtingale..sang sa werray dulce & sweit. c1550 Complaynt Scotl. (1979) vi. 51 The musician amphion..sang sa dulce quhil that the stanis mouit. ?a1562 G. Cavendish Life Wolsey (1959) 59 My lordes mynstrelles, who played there so Connyngly & dulce. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). dulcev. Now rare. transitive. To make sweet or soft; to mollify, appease. In quot. 1558: (perhaps) to make softer or more malleable, temper (cf. quot. 1600 at douce v. 2). ΘΚΠ the mind > emotion > aspects of emotion > capacity for emotion > sensitiveness or tenderness > make (more) sensitive or tender [verb (transitive)] > specifically of the heart moistc1390 tender1390 woke1393 asoftc1430 supply1534 dulce1558 entender1591 douce1593 unstone1594 moisten?a1661 1558 in J. B. Paul Accts. Treasurer Scotl. (1913) X. 438 For ix stane ane pund wecht of tyn to dulce the mettell to the said gros culvering. 1579 T. North tr. Plutarch Liues 108 To dulce and soften [Fr. attendrir] the hardened harts of the multitude. 1610 P. Holland tr. W. Camden Brit. i. 68 This Albinus..dulceth [L. demulcet] and kindly intreateth the men. 1657 F. Roberts Mysterium & Medulla Bibliorum iii. iv. 795 He moulded his Laws, both Morals, Ceremonials, and Iudicials, into a Covenant..hereby notably dulcing and facilitating his Laws unto them in Jesus Christ. 1889 Te Aroha News 24 Aug. 6/7 The magic..That dulced our spirits when in joyful prime We prized the beauty that we deemed divine! 1978 T. Griffiths in T. Griffiths & H. Rappaport tr. A. Chekhov Cherry Orchard Pref. p. v Chekhov's tough, bright-eyed complexity was dulced into swallowable sacs of sentimental morality. DerivativesΚΠ 1603 P. Holland tr. Plutarch Morals 65 For the dulcing [Fr. l'adoucir], taming, and appeasing of the soule. a1610 G. Babington Comfortable Notes: Num. iv in Wks. (1615) ii. 15 The dulcing of our tart dispositions, in censuring our elders. This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022). < |
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