dulcifyとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• IPA^(key): /ˈdʌlsɪfaɪ/
• ハイフネーション: dul‧cify

動詞

dulcify (三人称単数 現在形 dulcifies, 現在分詞 dulcifying, 過去形および過去分詞形 dulcified)

1. To sweeten the taste of.
2. To make sweeter or more pleasant.
   • 1911, Max Beerbohm, Zuleika Dobson:

     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.

3. (obsolete) To neutralise the acidity of.
4. (transitive) To mollify or make peaceful.

   He knew all the things to say to dulcify his mother.