Definitions
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- n. The act of sweetening; the act of freeing from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.
Wiktionary
- n. The act of dulcifying or sweetening.
GNU Webster's 1913
- n. The act of dulcifying or sweetening.
Etymologies
- Compare French dulcification. (Wiktionary)
Examples
“The chemistry of the savage is reduced to the preparation of pigments, that of poisons, and the dulcification of the amylaceous roots, which the aroides and the euphorbiaceous plants afford.”
“And it is evident in Colcothar that the exactest calcination, follow'd by an exquisite dulcification, does not alwaies reduce the remaining body into elementary earth; for after the salt or Vitriol (if the Calcination have been too faint) is drawn out of the Colcothar, the residue is not earth, but a mixt body, rich in”
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Madame Bovary
Some good words (chiefly French of origin, and often to do with the medical profession) encountered reading the Aveling translation -- mostly new to me, but a few words that are just worthy of bein...
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