dulcifyv.

Brit.

/ˈdʌlsᵻfʌɪ/, U.S.

/ˈdəlsəˌfaɪ/

Forms: 1500s– dulcify, 1600s dulcefie, 1600s dulcifie.

Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin dulcificare.

Etymology: < post-classical Latin dulcificare to sweeten (4th cent.), to wash the soluble salts out of a substance (1576 in the passage translated in quot. 1590 at sense 1a), to purify (an organ or the body) from acidity (1651 in the passage translated in quot. 1651 at sense 1b) < classical Latin dulcis sweet (see dulce adj.) + -ficāre -fy suffix.Compare French dulcifier (1620; < Latin).

Now somewhat rare.

†a. transitive. Chemistry. To wash the soluble salts out of (a substance); to make less corrosive or acidic. Obsolete.In quot. 1612 intransitive.

ΘΚΠ

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to dulcification

dulcify1590

edulcorate1651

1590 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Sclopotarie 89 (margin) Mercurie precipitate fixt and dulcified [L. dulcificatus] most profitable for the cure of woundes.

1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v. sig. E4^v Can you sublime, and dulcefie? calcine?

1683 J. Pettus Fleta Minor (1686) i. 126 Pour the Aqua fortis off, and dulcify the Gold with warm water.

1789 J. Keir First Pt. Dict. Chem. 32/2 Their..oily part, which dulcifies the acid.

b. transitive. Medicine. To neutralize or reduce the acidity or corrosiveness of (body fluids). Now historical and rare.

ΘΚΠ

the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours [verb (transitive)] > temper acrimony

dulcorate?a1425

dulcify1651

1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces ii. 64 By this means the hurtful acid humor is mortified, and dulcified [L. dulcificabitur] by the corals and pearles.

1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. ix. 95 Such medicines as dulcify the blood.

?1709 Brit. Apollo: Q. Paper 2 No. 1. 12/1 Crab's Eyes..Dulcify the Blood.

1790 World 28 Apr. Dr. Gowland's Lotion..acts by gently and kindly opening the pores of the skin, thereby extracting and dulcifying the acrid and morbid humours lurking in it.

1967 E. S. Turner Taking Cure 108 It lay ready to dulcify the acrimonious fluids.

†c. intransitive. Chemistry. To become less corrosive or acidic. Obsolete. rare.

ΚΠ

1686 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 2) i. x. 248 The oftner it [sc. Sublimate of Arsenick] is sublimed, the more it does dulcify, and becomes proper to apply to flesh, where we would gently corrode.

2. transitive. To make (food or drink) sweet to the taste; to sweeten.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > sweeten [verb (transitive)]

sweetc1000

dulcorate?a1425

doucea1475

sugar1530

sweeten1552

condulcate1569

dulcerate?1586

nectarize1592

dulcify1599

asweeten1605

ensweeten1607

besugar1611

endulce1611

indulcate1628

besweeten1648

dulcescate1657

obdulcorate1657

edulcorate1661

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > sweetening > sweeten [verb (transitive)]

sweetc1000

dulcorate?a1425

doucea1475

sweeten1552

nectarize1592

dulcify1599

asweeten1605

ensweeten1607

endulce1611

indulcate1628

dulcescate1657

obdulcorate1657

edulcorate1661

oversweeten1823

1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 152/1 You may..dulcify it with Suger [Ger. gemischt mit Zucker].

1679 J. Newburgh in J. Evelyn Pomona in Sylva (ed. 3) 393 One pound of broad-figs slit, is said to dulcifie an Hogshead of Cider.

1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Birch Tree This Wine..may be dulcify'd with Raisins.

1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 248/2 Intenerating and dulcifying a substance..so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs.

1866 Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts (ed. 2) 286 Digest with a gentle heat, then draw off 10 galls. in a bath heat, and dulcify with fine sugar.

1991 Financial Times 30 Mar. (Weekend FT section) p. vi/4 No extra sugar is added to dulcify Clarke's chocolates.

3. transitive. figurative and in extended use. To sweeten in temper; to make more agreeable or pleasant; to soften, mollify, appease.

ΘΚΠ

the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > gentleness or mildness > treat gently [verb (transitive)] > make gentle or mild

soft?c1225

mild1340

melta1382

softenc1410

mollifya1450

amollish1474

amolify1483

ameeka1500

mellow1593

dulcify1647

the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)]

temperc1000

keelc1175

slakea1300

abate?c1335

settle1338

swagea1340

modifyc1385

rebatea1398

bate1398

moder1414

releasea1425

remiss?a1425

moderate1435

alethe?1440

delaya1450

appal1470

addulce1477

mollify1496

mean?a1513

relent1535

qualify1536

temperatea1540

aplake1578

slack1589

relaxate1598

milden1603

mitigate1611

relax1612

alleniate1615

allay1628

alloy1634

castigate1653

smoothen1655

tendera1656

mitify1656

meeken1662

remitigate1671

obviscate1684

slacken1685

chastise1704

dulcify1744

absorb1791

demulceate1817

chasten1856

modulate1974

mediate1987

1647 T. Matthew Missive of Consol. ii. 47 Out of S. Pauls mouth..we may take this hony to dulcifie all those bitternesses of our lives.

1694 J. Crowne Married Beau iv. 44 I am mollified: I will go home, and be dulcified.

1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket i. 1 (note) This Title might have been dulcified; and..render'd extremely polite and unintelligible.

1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 217 Time had not dulcified the tempers of the three elder.

1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson 303 And there was, to dulcify for her the bath of this evening, the yet sharper contrast with the plight she had just come home in, sopped, shivering, clung to by her clothes.

1944 D. B. Wyndham Ronsard 303 The great Ambroise Pare, surgeon to the King, then engaged in dulcifying the ferocities of Renaissance surgery.

2001 L. Nayak tr. B. Badajena in Indian Lit. 45 78 Dr Succulent ventured on this treatment that was to soothe and dulcify the patient.

4. intransitive. To speak in soft or gentle tones. Also transitive: to say (something) in this way. Now rare.

ΘΚΠ

the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak pleasingly

dulcify1839

1839 Lady Lytton Cheveley III. iii. 87 As she had dulcified sufficiently with..the duchess.

1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 44 ‘Waiter’, dulcifies an urbane gentleman.

1983 G. R. Metcalf From Little Rock to Boston iv. 36 ‘Don't worry—everything will work out,’ he dulcified.

Derivatives

ˈdulcifying n. and adj.

ΘΚΠ

the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > sweetening

dulcifying1591

edulcorating1660

sweetening1707

dulcific1772

the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > sweetening > [adjective]

dulcifying1591

edulcorating1660

dulcific1772

the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > distillation > dulcification

dulceration?1586

dulcifying1591

dulcification1617

dulcoration1622

dulcorating1626

1591 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Breefe Aunswere Expos. I. Aubertus f. 29v The whole perfection of this medicine consisteth in the fixing and dulcifying of it [sc. Mercurie].

1670 G. Thompson Ἁιματιασις 178 Afterward to give Eustomachicks, Anti-scorbuticks, corroborating, dulcifying,..Anti-malignant Medicines.

1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dulcifying,..a Term used in Physick, for rendering a Fluid less acid, and rough.

1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. i. 17 The pleasure of this discourse had such a dulcifying tendency.

1991 Quarterly (U.S.) Summer 52 Let me get you to that thwarted dark where I will wash your feet with all my dulcifying tears.

ˈdulcifier n. now rare

ΘΚΠ

the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun]

edulcorator1669

dulcifier1681

sweetener1718

sugaring1740

sweetening1819

1681 P. Bellon in tr. F. de Monginot New Myst. Physick sig. c2^v It is a most powerful Dulcifier of all Acides, and therefore proper likewise in the Cure of Fevers.

1792 Senator 4 280 This was the term made use of as a sweetener, or, as a similar term had been once called, a dulcifier, to satisfy the people.

1847 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 14 163 A kind of general dulcifier of all acerbities.

1947 Law & Contemp. Probl. 12 226 The executive secretary serves as a general factotum and, when necessary, as dulcifier to dyspeptic union representatives and plant managers.

This entry has been updated (OED Third Edition, December 2019; most recently modified version published online March 2022).

单词	dulcify
释义	dulcifyv. Brit. /ˈdʌlsᵻfʌɪ/, U.S. /ˈdəlsəˌfaɪ/ Forms: 1500s– dulcify, 1600s dulcefie, 1600s dulcifie. Origin: A borrowing from Latin. Etymon: Latin dulcificare. Etymology: < post-classical Latin dulcificare to sweeten (4th cent.), to wash the soluble salts out of a substance (1576 in the passage translated in quot. 1590 at sense 1a), to purify (an organ or the body) from acidity (1651 in the passage translated in quot. 1651 at sense 1b) < classical Latin dulcis sweet (see dulce adj.) + -ficāre -fy suffix.Compare French dulcifier (1620; < Latin). Now somewhat rare. 1. †a. transitive. Chemistry. To wash the soluble salts out of (a substance); to make less corrosive or acidic. Obsolete.In quot. 1612 intransitive. ΘΚΠ the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > subject to chemical reactions or processes [verb (transitive)] > subject to named chemical reaction or process > subject to dulcification dulcify1590 edulcorate1651 1590 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Sclopotarie 89 (margin) Mercurie precipitate fixt and dulcified [L. dulcificatus] most profitable for the cure of woundes. 1612 B. Jonson Alchemist ii. v. sig. E4^v Can you sublime, and dulcefie? calcine? View more context for this quotation 1683 J. Pettus Fleta Minor (1686) i. 126 Pour the Aqua fortis off, and dulcify the Gold with warm water. 1789 J. Keir First Pt. Dict. Chem. 32/2 Their..oily part, which dulcifies the acid. b. transitive. Medicine. To neutralize or reduce the acidity or corrosiveness of (body fluids). Now historical and rare. ΘΚΠ the world > health and disease > healing > medicines or physic > medicines for specific purpose > medicine to draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours > draw, disperse, etc., matter or humours [verb (transitive)] > temper acrimony dulcorate?a1425 dulcify1651 1651 J. French tr. J. R. Glauber Descr. New Philos. Furnaces ii. 64 By this means the hurtful acid humor is mortified, and dulcified [L. dulcificabitur] by the corals and pearles. 1672 O. Walker Of Educ. i. ix. 95 Such medicines as dulcify the blood. ?1709 Brit. Apollo: Q. Paper 2 No. 1. 12/1 Crab's Eyes..Dulcify the Blood. 1790 World 28 Apr. Dr. Gowland's Lotion..acts by gently and kindly opening the pores of the skin, thereby extracting and dulcifying the acrid and morbid humours lurking in it. 1967 E. S. Turner Taking Cure 108 It lay ready to dulcify the acrimonious fluids. †c. intransitive. Chemistry. To become less corrosive or acidic. Obsolete. rare. ΚΠ 1686 W. Harris tr. N. Lémery Course Chym. (ed. 2) i. x. 248 The oftner it [sc. Sublimate of Arsenick] is sublimed, the more it does dulcify, and becomes proper to apply to flesh, where we would gently corrode. 2. transitive. To make (food or drink) sweet to the taste; to sweeten. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > sweeten [verb (transitive)] sweetc1000 dulcorate?a1425 doucea1475 sugar1530 sweeten1552 condulcate1569 dulcerate?1586 nectarize1592 dulcify1599 asweeten1605 ensweeten1607 besugar1611 endulce1611 indulcate1628 besweeten1648 dulcescate1657 obdulcorate1657 edulcorate1661 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > sweetening > sweeten [verb (transitive)] sweetc1000 dulcorate?a1425 doucea1475 sweeten1552 nectarize1592 dulcify1599 asweeten1605 ensweeten1607 endulce1611 indulcate1628 dulcescate1657 obdulcorate1657 edulcorate1661 oversweeten1823 1599 A. M. tr. O. Gaebelkhover Bk. Physicke 152/1 You may..dulcify it with Suger [Ger. gemischt mit Zucker]. 1679 J. Newburgh in J. Evelyn Pomona in Sylva (ed. 3) 393 One pound of broad-figs slit, is said to dulcifie an Hogshead of Cider. 1727 R. Bradley Chomel's Dictionaire Oeconomique (Dublin ed.) at Birch Tree This Wine..may be dulcify'd with Raisins. 1822 C. Lamb in London Mag. Sept. 248/2 Intenerating and dulcifying a substance..so mild and dulcet as the flesh of young pigs. 1866 Mackenzie's Ten Thousand Receipts (ed. 2) 286 Digest with a gentle heat, then draw off 10 galls. in a bath heat, and dulcify with fine sugar. 1991 Financial Times 30 Mar. (Weekend FT section) p. vi/4 No extra sugar is added to dulcify Clarke's chocolates. 3. transitive. figurative and in extended use. To sweeten in temper; to make more agreeable or pleasant; to soften, mollify, appease. ΘΚΠ the world > action or operation > behaviour > good behaviour > kindness > gentleness or mildness > treat gently [verb (transitive)] > make gentle or mild soft?c1225 mild1340 melta1382 softenc1410 mollifya1450 amollish1474 amolify1483 ameeka1500 mellow1593 dulcify1647 the world > action or operation > manner of action > lack of violence, severity, or intensity > make less violent or severe [verb (transitive)] temperc1000 keelc1175 slakea1300 abate?c1335 settle1338 swagea1340 modifyc1385 rebatea1398 bate1398 moder1414 releasea1425 remiss?a1425 moderate1435 alethe?1440 delaya1450 appal1470 addulce1477 mollify1496 mean?a1513 relent1535 qualify1536 temperatea1540 aplake1578 slack1589 relaxate1598 milden1603 mitigate1611 relax1612 alleniate1615 allay1628 alloy1634 castigate1653 smoothen1655 tendera1656 mitify1656 meeken1662 remitigate1671 obviscate1684 slacken1685 chastise1704 dulcify1744 absorb1791 demulceate1817 chasten1856 modulate1974 mediate1987 1647 T. Matthew Missive of Consol. ii. 47 Out of S. Pauls mouth..we may take this hony to dulcifie all those bitternesses of our lives. 1694 J. Crowne Married Beau iv. 44 I am mollified: I will go home, and be dulcified. 1744 ‘J. Love’ Cricket i. 1 (note) This Title might have been dulcified; and..render'd extremely polite and unintelligible. 1831 Blackwood's Edinb. Mag. 30 217 Time had not dulcified the tempers of the three elder. 1911 M. Beerbohm Zuleika Dobson 303 And there was, to dulcify for her the bath of this evening, the yet sharper contrast with the plight she had just come home in, sopped, shivering, clung to by her clothes. 1944 D. B. Wyndham Ronsard 303 The great Ambroise Pare, surgeon to the King, then engaged in dulcifying the ferocities of Renaissance surgery. 2001 L. Nayak tr. B. Badajena in Indian Lit. 45 78 Dr Succulent ventured on this treatment that was to soothe and dulcify the patient. 4. intransitive. To speak in soft or gentle tones. Also transitive: to say (something) in this way. Now rare. ΘΚΠ the mind > language > speech > manner of speaking > speak in a particular manner [verb (intransitive)] > speak pleasingly dulcify1839 1839 Lady Lytton Cheveley III. iii. 87 As she had dulcified sufficiently with..the duchess. 1856 Chambers's Jrnl. 5 44 ‘Waiter’, dulcifies an urbane gentleman. 1983 G. R. Metcalf From Little Rock to Boston iv. 36 ‘Don't worry—everything will work out,’ he dulcified. Derivatives ˈdulcifying n. and adj. ΘΚΠ the world > physical sensation > taste and flavour > sweetness > [adjective] > sweetening dulcifying1591 edulcorating1660 sweetening1707 dulcific1772 the world > food and drink > food > food manufacture and preparation > preparation for table or cooking > sweetening > [adjective] dulcifying1591 edulcorating1660 dulcific1772 the world > matter > chemistry > chemical reactions or processes > [noun] > chemical reactions or processes (named) > distillation > dulcification dulceration?1586 dulcifying1591 dulcification1617 dulcoration1622 dulcorating1626 1591 J. Hester tr. J. Du Chesne Breefe Aunswere Expos. I. Aubertus f. 29v The whole perfection of this medicine consisteth in the fixing and dulcifying of it [sc. Mercurie]. 1670 G. Thompson Ἁιματιασις 178 Afterward to give Eustomachicks, Anti-scorbuticks, corroborating, dulcifying,..Anti-malignant Medicines. 1728 E. Chambers Cycl. Dulcifying,..a Term used in Physick, for rendering a Fluid less acid, and rough. 1816 W. Scott Antiquary I. i. 17 The pleasure of this discourse had such a dulcifying tendency. 1991 Quarterly (U.S.) Summer 52 Let me get you to that thwarted dark where I will wash your feet with all my dulcifying tears. ˈdulcifier n. now rare ΘΚΠ the world > food and drink > food > additive > sweetener > [noun] edulcorator1669 dulcifier1681 sweetener1718 sugaring1740 sweetening1819 1681 P. Bellon in tr. F. de Monginot New Myst. Physick sig. c2^v It is a most powerful Dulcifier of all Acides, and therefore proper likewise in the Cure of Fevers. 1792 Senator 4 280 This was the term made use of as a sweetener, or, as a similar term had been once called, a dulcifier, to satisfy the people. 1847 Tait's Edinb. Mag. 14 163 A kind of general dulcifier of all acerbities. 1947 Law & Contemp. Probl. 12 226 The executive secretary serves as a general factotum and, when necessary, as dulcifier to dyspeptic union representatives and plant managers. 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