Definitions

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 5th Edition.

  • transitive verb To make agreeable or gentle; mollify.
  • transitive verb To sweeten.

from The Century Dictionary.

  • To sweeten; in old chemistry, to free from corrosive and sharp-tasting admixtures; render more agreeable to the taste.
  • To render more agreeable in any sense.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • transitive verb (Pharm.) To sweeten; to free from acidity, saltness, or acrimony.
  • transitive verb Fig. : To mollify; to sweeten; to please.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • verb transitive To sweeten
  • verb transitive To remove salty or acidic flavors with a sweetener
  • verb transitive To mollify or make peaceful

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • verb make sweeter in taste

Etymologies

from The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, 4th Edition

[Late Latin dulcificāre, to sweeten : Latin dulcis, sweet + -ficāre, -fy.]

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Examples

  • 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.

    Zuleika Dobson, or, an Oxford love story Max Beerbohm 1914

  • 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.

    Zuleika Dobson 1911

  • His face was uncommonly dirty; his eyes uncommonly inquisitive; his whiskers uncommonly plentiful; and his voice most uncommonly and determinately gruff, in spite of his efforts to dulcify it for the occasion.

    The Stolen Mask; or The Mysterious Cash-box. A Story for a Christmas Fireside 1864

  • The savage of America, like the savage of the South Sea islands, has learned to dulcify the fecula, by pressing and separating it from its juice.

    Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America 1851

  • The delectable little Dutch songs with which she used to dulcify the house grew less and less frequent, and she would forget her sewing and look wistfully in her father's face as he sat pondering by the fire side.

    Tales of a Traveller 1824

  • The delectable little Dutch songs with which she used to dulcify the house grew less and less frequent, and she would forget her sewing and look wistfully in her father's face as he sat pondering by the fireside.

    Tales of a Traveller Washington Irving 1821

  • South Sea islands, has learned to dulcify the fecula, by pressing and separating it from its juice.

    Personal Narrative of Travels to the Equinoctial Regions of America, During the Year 1799-1804 — Volume 2 Alexander von Humboldt 1814

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  • (_To the_ 2ND PHYSICIAN) Come, let us begin the cure; and, through the exhilarating sweetness of harmony, let us dulcify, lenify, and pacify the acrimony of his spirits, which, I see, are ready to be inflamed.

    Monsieur De Pourceaugnac 1622-1673 Moli��re 1647

  • Green Tea Leaf Extract is utilised to modify cholesterin levels, impact the insusceptible system, and set murder dulcify and insulin levels.

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  • The cat said, “The rules must apply!”

    “Not so,” did the wise mouse reply.

    “We’ll chase just for show

    But you’ll let me go.

    The household will prosper and dulcify.”

    March 23, 2019